Background: Bauhinia pentandrais popularly known as "mororó" and inhabits the Caatinga and Savannah biomes.
Objective: This paper reports the chemical composition of the essential and fatty oils of the leaves from B. pentandra.
Materials And Methods: The essential oil was obtained by hydrodistillation and the fixed oil by extraction with hexane, followed by saponification with KOH/MeOH, and methylation using MeOH/HCl. The constituents were analyzed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry.
Results: The major constituent of the essential oil was the phytol (58.78% ±8.51%), and of the fatty oil were palmitic (29.03%), stearic (28.58%) and linolenic (10.53%) acids.
Conclusion: Of the compounds identified in the essential oil, three are first reported in this species, and this is the first record of the chemical composition of the fixed oil.
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