Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae (Jan 2015)
Flavonoids from the bird's foot trefoil seeds (Lotus corniculatus L.)
Abstract
In the seeds of bird's foot trefoil (Lotus corniculatus L.) the presence of quercetin- and kaempferol heterosides was found. Eight crystalline compounds and one chromatographically homogeneous fraction were obtained from the flavonoid mixture using column chromatography on polyamide and cellulose. By means of TL-chromatography, elemental analysis and UV-spectrometry seven of the isolated compounds were identified to be quercetin, quercetin 3-arabopyranoside (guajaverin), quercetin 3-galactoside, quercetin 3-rhamnoside, kaempferol 3,7-diglucoside, kaempferol 3,7-dirhamnoside kaempferol 3-glucosyl-7-rhamnoside and two remaining ones were only partly characterized a snearer indefinite kaempferol heterosides.