Abstract: | The seed coats ofArtemisia absinthium andOnoporum acanthium have been shown to contain paraffinic hydrocarbons (C31-C25 and C31-C27, respectively), wax esters (C32-C23 and C51-C33), acetyltriterpenols (six types, five types), and acyltriterpenols with a predominance of palmitoyltriterpenols (esters of higher saturated unbranched C32:0-C12:0 fatty acids and triterpenols with a molecular weight of 426 belonging to the ursene group).Institute of the Chemistry of Plant Substances, Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 2, pp. 154–157, March–April, 1981. |