Author(s):

Uwemedimo Emmanuel Udo, Johnbull Onyekachi Echeme, Okenwa Uchenna Igwe and Thomas Paul Sunday

Abstract: A phytosterol β-Stigmasterol, was isolated from the hexane fraction of the stembark of Lonchocarpus sericeus Poir. (Papilionaceae), a medicinal plant commonly used in folkloric medicine in Southern Nigeria for the treatment of inflammation and pain. Its structure was established by FT-IR, ¹HNMR, ¹³CNMR, 2-dimensional NMR spectroscopy and by direct comparison of data with those in literature.

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