ERGOSTEROL FROM THE MUSHROOM LAETIPORUS SP .; ISOLATION AND STRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION

Abstract

Laetiporus sp. a mushroom growing on species of Eucalyptus sp in Piribebuy city, Cordillera department, Paraguay, was submitted to extraction and crystallization procedures to obtain the main secondary metabolite, ergosterol. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report on ergosterol in this genus. The structural characterization was achieved by means of NMR techniques, namely 1 H, 13 C, COSY H-H, HMQC and HMBC.