“…The chemistry of Croton genus shows a high diversity of structures: diterpenes of different skeletons including crotofolanes (Chávez et al, 2013;Kawakami et al, 2015), clerodanes (Pizzolatti et al, 2013;Aldhaher et al, 2017;Qiu et al, 2018), kaurenes (Mora et al, 2011;Mateu et al, 2012;Pereira et al, 2012), labdanes (Bernardino et al, 2017), the more important structures in many species (Xu et al, 2018;Shi et al, 2018). Terpenes (Palmeira Júnior et al, 2006); alkaloids and flavonoids are also common in the genus (de Araújo- Júnior et al, 2004;Suárez et al, 2004;Cerqueira-Coelho et al, 2016).…”