Preliminary phytochemical analysis of Dodonaea viscosa leaves

The aim of the present study was to investigate the presence of phytochemicals such as flavonoids, alkaloids, triterpenoids, saponins, tannins, reducing sugar, amino acid, steroids proteins and cardiac glycosides in the leaf extracts of selected medicinal plant, Dodonea viscosa collected from hills near Chengalpattu, Tamil Nadu, India. Acetone: Chloroform mixture (70:30) was used as solvents. Optimized solvent systems were used for thin layer chromatography (TLC) followed by contact bioautography to evaluate the bioactivities of the fractions.It was found that Alkaloids, tri terpenoids, amino acids, and cardiac glycosides were absent whereas flavonoids, saponins, tannins, reducing sugars and steroids were present in the extract. The TLC results indicates the presence of phytochemicals in the sample extract.

Author(s): M. Sathish Kumar, S. Selvakumar, M. R. K. Rao and S. Anbuselvi

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