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    Two Long Chain Alcohols from Leaves of Moringa Stenopetala
    (Addis Ababa University, 2014-02-02) Gezae Taame; Dagne Ermias (Professor)
    Plants have been and will remain vital to mankind, animals as well as the environment. The present study focuses on the phytochemistry of the endemic food and medicinal plant species known as Moringa stenopetala, which is confined to the horn of Africa: Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia. In the course of this study from the extracts of the dried leaves the well known flavonoid, rutin and two long chain alcohols were isolated and tentatively identified as 1-Heptacosanol and 14-(tridecylamino) tetradecan-1-ol. The structure elucidation of these compounds was achieved mainly by means of physical and spectroscopic analysis.