Aspectos químicos do estudo de Hamelia patens Jacq

Abstract

This work describes the phytochemical investigation of Hamelia patens (Rubiaceae) native from Guaramiranga montain, Ceará, Brazil. Sucessive chromatographic treatment of the ethanol extract of leaves led to the isolation of the pentaciclic oxindole alkaloids pteropodine, isopteropodine, palmirine, and the new isopalmirine, besides the flavonoid kaempferol l-3-α-O-rhamnopyranosyl-(1-6)-β-D-galactopyranoside. The study of the ethanol extract of the stems led to the isolation of the steroids β-sitosterol and stigmasterol as mixture, stigmast-4-en-3,6-dione, and the triterpene ursolic acid. The ethanol extract of the trunk yielded vanillic acid and the β-sitosterol and stigmasterol glucosilated. The isolation of the chemical constituents were performed by the use of chromatographic techniques, including flash cromatography, thin layer crohromatography, preparative crhomatography, and preparative high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). The strucutral charactherization were performed by the use of infrared, mass spectrometry and nuclear magnetic resonance, including one (1H NMR, 13C NMR and DEPT 135) and two-bidimensional pulse sequences (HMBC, HSQC, COSY e NOESY), and comparison with literature data.