Results and Future Work

During this semester I was able to work with three different extracts of Cundeamor: the crude extract, the Sohxlet extract and the infusion. My results show that organic compounds are being extracted in each by solvents of different polarities. Also, as expected, a major quantity of constituens are extracted in the crudes. We should work on the quantity of solvents used since we found that the quantity extracted are being limited by the solvent’s. With the spectroscopic results of NMR we found that the Sohxlet extract compares with the infusion by identifying similar picks in the extracts. More trials will be done to optimize the quantities extracted by the quantity of leaves and solvent used. As future work, we are interested in performing preparative TLC to purify the extracts and do more spectroscopic analysis. Also, we should study the bioactivity of the extracts by performing bioassays on antidiabetic effects.