Phytochemical screening by LC-MS and LC-PDA of ethanolic extracts from the fruits of Kigelia africana (Lam.) Benth

Kigelia africana is a tree native to Africa, with a local employment in numerous fields, ranging from traditional medicine to cosmetics and religious rituals. Parts of the plant generally used are stem bark, fruits, roots and leaves. The fruits, which have a singular 'sausage' shape, are w...

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Published in:Natural product research 2017-06, Vol.31 (12), p.1397-1402
Main Authors: Costa, Rosaria, Albergamo, Ambrogina, Pellizzeri, Vito, Dugo, Giacomo
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bark
Bignoniaceae - chemistry
Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid - methods
Coinjection
Cosmetics
Fruit - chemistry
Fruits
High performance liquid chromatography
HPLC-ESI-MS
Humans
iridoids
Iridoids - analysis
Kigelia africana
Leaves
Liquid chromatography
Mass spectrometry
Mass spectroscopy
Medicinal plants
Phenolic compounds
Phenols
Phytochemicals - analysis
Plant Extracts - analysis
Plants
Polyphenols
Polyphenols - analysis
sausage tree
Spectrometry, Mass, Electrospray Ionization - methods
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Summary:Kigelia africana is a tree native to Africa, with a local employment in numerous fields, ranging from traditional medicine to cosmetics and religious rituals. Parts of the plant generally used are stem bark, fruits, roots and leaves. The fruits, which have a singular 'sausage' shape, are widely exploited by local folk, in particular for applications/products involving genito-urinary apparatus of both human genders. The scope of this work was to make a consistent chemical investigation on this plant species, in order to clarify and increase the information at present available in literature. To this aim, ethanolic extracts of K. africana fruits were analysed by high-performance liquid chromatography with photodiode array (HPLC-PDA) and electrospray-mass spectrometry (HPLC-ESI-MS) detection, revealing the presence of polyphenols and iridoids. The two detection systems used along with standard co-injection and comparison with previous reports, led to the identification and quantification of six phenolic compounds and three iridoids.
ISSN:1478-6419
1478-6427
DOI:10.1080/14786419.2016.1253080