Chemical Constituents of the Red Alga Acanthophora Spicifera

Abstract

Analysis of the petroleum-wither and chloroform extracts of the marine red alga @iAcanthophora spicifera@@ led to the isolation of a sterol, cholesterol, fatty acids, stearic, palmitic, behenic (C@d22@@) and arachidic acids (C@d20@@) and a fatty ester, methyl palmitate, identified on the basis of their chemical and spectroscope characteristics