Bob Wilfrid Loumouamou

Apparent Recovery of Naturally Occurring Epoxy Fatty Acids from Alchornea cordifolia Seeds Across Solvents and Extraction Times: A Mass-balance Analysis of Batch Extractions

Anicet Frédéric Binaki, Bob Wilfrid Loumouamou, Hubert Makomo, Jerry Sakala Mackita, Fahoziath Disu Kofoworola, Jean Mathurin Nzikou & Thomas Silou · Asian Journal of Chemical Sciences · 2026

Alchornea cordifolia seed oil is naturally enriched in a C20 epoxy fatty acid, but solvent comparisons may be misleading when extract composition is treated as equivalent to target-mass recovery. This study applied an explicit mass-balance approach to a batch-extraction screening...