ISOLATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF TWO NEW COMPOUNDS FROM THE PLANT BAUHINIA VARIEGATA

Bauhinia variegata plant is widely known and found throughout the world. It has extensive uses in our foods and also has a great medicinal importance which led the scientists to explore its responsible constituents. In this connection, in our studies on ethanolic extract of the Bauhinia Variegata, two new compounds were isolated and purified through chromatographic techniques. Then the molecular formula and characterization of these compounds were carried out with Mass spectral studies, and IR, UV and NMR spectral analysis. Consequently, to the new compounds Variegat A (1) molecular formula was assigned as C25 H36 O and for the compound Variegat B (2) was assigned C24H32O3 while the structural formulas for Variegat A (1) and Variegat B (2) was established as; 7-(tertbutyl)-6-ethoxy-1-(2-methylprop-1-en-1-yl)-3-(tert-pentyl) naphthalene and Methyl6-ethoxy-7-methyl-8-(2- methylprop-1-en-1-yl)-3-(tert-pentyl)-2-naphthoate respectively. Key words: Bauhinia Variegata, Isolation, Characterization, Variegat A, Variegat B