Senna occidentalis (L.) Link, of the family Caesalpiniaceae and locally known as ‘kalkasundha’ in India, is a medicinal plant of multifarious uses. Right from it’s earliest mentioning in ayurveda along with other earlier records claim its use as analgesic, antipyretic drug, to treat colitis, constipation, dysentery, jaundice, cholera, leprosy and many others. Its antibacterial, antifungal, anti...

Starting from (S)-β-phenylalanine, easily accessible by lipase-catalyzed kinetic resolution, a chiral triamine was assembled by a reductive amination and finally cyclized to form the title compound 10. In the crystals of the guanidinium benzoate salt the six membered rings of 10 adopt conformations close to an envelope with the phenyl substituents in pseudo-axial positions. The unprotonated gua...

The asymmetric unit of the title compound, C21H16ClNO4, contains two independent mol-ecules (A and B), each adopting a conformation wherein the isoxazole ring is roughly orthogonal to the anthrone ring. The dihedral angle between the mean plane of the isoxazole (all atoms) and the mean plane of the anthrone (all atoms) is 88.48 (3)° in one mol-ecule and 89.92 (4)° in the other. The ester is alm...

Malaria is one of the three major global public health threats due to a wide spread resistance of the parasites to the standard antimalarial drugs. Considering this growing problem, the ethnomedicinal approach in the search for new antimalarial drugs from plant sources has proven to be more effective and inexpensive. The leaves of Aloe pulcherrima Gilbert and Sebsebe, an endemic Ethiopian plant...

BACKGROUND The genus Aloe has been the subject of several chemotaxonomic and phytochemical investigations. Aloe ferox is an important source of biologically active compounds like anthrones, chromones, pyrones, and flavonoids. It is a plant used extensively in traditional medicine. Despite the myriad of studies on the pharmacological profile of the plant, there still exists a dearth of scientifi...