1.Plant source: Orange, grapefruit, lemon, Orange, active components.
2.Product information:
1).Product name: Limonin;
2). Characters: Yellow-brown or light yellow or white fine powder, easy-to-stripping ester of organic solvents,Insoluble in water,soluble easily in methanol, ethanol solubility .
3).Purity: 95%/98%( HPLC);
4).CAS NO:1180-71-8;
5). Molecular Formula: C26H30O8 ;
6). Molecular Weight: 470.53;
7) .Structural Formula:
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3. Pharmacological effects: lemon bitter compounds found chiefly in rutaceae fruit, such as orange ( grapefruit and other citrus). To the pit (seed) in the higher levels, less in Peel (about 1 to 10 ppm). From citrus in separation and identification of bitter of about 50, common limomin, nomilin, deacetylnomilin, obacunone, nomilinic acid, etc., they are a furan triterpenoids.