An Overview Of The Iridiods From The Genus Vitex

BM Oluwasesan; AA Zaki; A Sinmisola; JY Bae; PS Fasinu; Z Ali; IA Khan; UL Ajao; OS Olubunmi

doi:10.1055/s-0036-1578719

An Overview Of The Iridiods From The Genus Vitex

BM Oluwasesan ¹^,²^,³, AA Zaki ³^,⁶, A Sinmisola ⁵, JY Bae ³, PS Fasinu ³, Z Ali ³, IA Khan ³^,⁴, UL Ajao ², OS Olubunmi ²

¹Dept. of Applied Chemistry, Federal University Dutsin-Ma, Katsina State, Nigeria
²Dept. of Chemistry, University of Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria
³National Center for Natural Products Research, University of Mississippi
⁴Division of Pharmacognosy, Department of BioMolecular Sciences, School of Pharmacy, The University of Mississippi, University, MS 38677, USA
⁵Dept of Pharmaceutics & Pharmaceutical Technology, School of Pharmacy, University of Lagos, Nigeria
⁶Pharmacognosy Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516, Egypt

Abstract

Ecdysteroids and iridiods are two main classes of compounds in Vitex genus, which comprises approximately 750 species. Their constitutive presence has been reported in a number of genera in the family Verbenaceae. In addition to the utilization of morphological features of plants belonging to this family, ecdysteroids and Iridoids are useful chemotaxonomic markers to aid taxonomic identification [1]. This review describes the distribution of iridiods in various Vitex species and ¹³C-NMR data of the main iridiods found in this genus.

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Reference: [1] Sena filho JG et al. (2008) Chem. Biodiverse. 5(5):707 – 13