cycloartenol and its Impurities

Cycloartenol is the starting point for the synthesis of almost all plant steroids, making them chemically distinct from the steroids of fungi and animals which are instead produced from lanosterol. It is an important triterpenoid of the sterol class.. Reference standards of Cycloartenol API, and its pharmacopeial, non pharmacopeial impurities, and stable isotopes are listed below