Article · Wikipedia archive · Last revised Jun 11, 2026

Bacoside

Bacosides are a class of chemical compounds isolated from Bacopa monnieri. Chemically, they are dammarane-type triterpenoid saponins.

Last revised
Jun 11, 2026
Read time
≈ 1 min
Length
63 w
Citations
1
Source
Wikipedia ↗
Chemical structure of bacoside A3 source ↗

Bacosides are a class of chemical compounds isolated from Bacopa monnieri. Chemically, they are dammarane-type triterpenoid saponins.

There are at least twelve known members of the class.1

See also

See also

References

References

  1. Pamita Bhandari; Neeraj Kumar; Bikram Singh; Inderjeet Kaur (2009). "Dammarane triterpenoid saponins from Bacopa monnieri". Canadian Journal of Chemistry. 87 (9): 1230–1234. doi:10.1139/V09-111.