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Anthraquinones of the roots of Pentas micrantha
(University of Nairobi, 2012-12)
Pentas micrantha is used in the East African indigenous medicine to treat malaria. In the first investigation of this plant, the crude methanol root extract showed moderate antiplasmodial activity against the W2- (3.37 ...
Cytotoxic Quinones from the Roots of Aloe dawei.
(University of Nairobi, 2014-03-17)
Seven naphthoquinones and nine anthraquinones were isolated from the roots of Aloe dawei by chromatographic separation. The purified metabolites were identified by NMR and MS analyses. Out of the sixteen quinones, ...
Cytotoxic and antioxidant flemingins g-p from the leaves of flemingia grahamiana
(University of Nairobi, 2014)
The known flemingins A-C (1-3) and nine new chalcones, named flemingins G-O (4-12), along with deoxyhomoflemingin (13) and emodin (14) were isolated from a leaf extract of Flemingia grahamiana. The isolated chalcones were ...