Abstract

M. M. Vaishnav¹, **Praveen Jain², ***S.R. Jogi³, ****K.R. Gupta⁴

Coccinia indica W. and A., (Cucurbitaceae) known as kanduri in Hindi. We report here a new saponin from its roots. The n-butanol extract of the ethanolic extract upon repeated chromatography purification afforded a new triterpenoid, saponin C41H66O12 m.p. 245-247°, which we named COCCINIOSIDE-K.

Coccinia indica; w. saponin; coccinioside-K

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