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hecogenin Chem.|hɛkəʊˈdʒɛnɪn|
[f. mod.L. Hec(htia, name of a genus of plants + -o + genin.]
A steroid glycoside (see quot. 1965) occurring in various plants, as Hechtia texensis and Agave species, obtained commercially from sisal waste and used commercially as a precursor in the manufacture of cortisone and other steroid hormones.
1943R. E. Marker et al. in Jrnl. Amer. Chem. Soc. LXV. 1199/2 We first isolated from Hechtia texensis (S. Wats.) a new steroidal sapogenin having the composition C27H42O4..which we have named hecogenin. 1952Sci. News XXV. 115 More than 100,000 tons of fibre are produced yearly from sisal,..and..approximately the same amount of waste material, containing 0.04 per cent to 0.1 per cent of hecogenin, are available. 1965Pollock & Stevens Dict. Org. Compounds (ed. 4) III. 1809/1, 3β-Hydroxy-5α-spirostan-12-one (Hecogenin). 1972Materials & Technol. V. xx. 752 Hecogenin is extracted from sisal waste. |