Biologically active inositol, sterols and lipid derivatives from <i>Sesbania bispinosa</i>

Abstract

The leaves, stem and roots of <i>Sesbania bispinosa</i>, a crop of nutritional value to the soil, have thoroughly been examined to yield an antidiabetic inositol derivative, called (+)-pinitol <b style="">1</b>, along with poriferasterol, an uncommon steroid, and its glucoside and sucrose from the methanol extract. The nonpolar and polar extracts afford saturated and unsaturated common fatty acids along with several terminal and central hydroxy unsaturated lipid derivatives <b style="">2-7</b> whose isolation is reported for the first time.