IDENTIFICATION OF WAXES FROM THE LEAVES OF KALANCHOE PINNATA

1 March 1974

journal article
Published by Georg Thieme Verlag KG in Planta Medica

Vol. 25 (02) , 193-197
https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0028-1097931

Abstract

Wax-hydrocarbons (C ₂₅ –C ₃₅ ), wax-alkohols (even n– and iso–C ₂₆ –C ₃₆ ) and fatty acids (even C ₁₆–C ₂₈ ) including unsaturated in traces, have been isolated by column chromatography on alumina and identified through IR and GLC studies.

Keywords

COMPOSITION
ORNAMENTAL PLANTS
WAXES
LEAVES
ALCOHOLS