Abstract

STRUCTURAL ELUCIDATION OF BIOACTIVE COMPONENTS IN AQUEOUS EXTRACT OF Eugenia uniflora LEAVES USING FTIR ANALYSIS

*Dr. Geedhu Daniel

Abstract

The isolation of active plants compounds lead to discover a several drugs derived directly from plants. The present study aims at structural elucidation of bioactive compounds in aqueous hot extract of Eugenia uniflora leaves using FTIR analysis. 10 mg of the dried extract powder was encapsulated in 100 mg of KBr pellet inorder to prepare translucent sample discs. The powdered sample of plant specimen was loaded in FTIR spectroscope (Shimazdu, IR affinity 1, Japan) with a scan range from 400 to 4000 cm-1 with a resolution of 4cm-1. FTIR analysis of the extract revealed the presence of different functional groups at different peaks. Screening of functional groups represents the presence of alkanes, aliphatic amines, alcohols, carboxylic acids, amines. The presence of these functional groups is indicating various medicinal properties of Eugenia uniflora. From the result it can be concluded that the medicinal properties of the extract may be due to the presence of these functional groups. However, advanced spectroscopic studies are required for structural elucidation and identification of the active principles in the extract.

Keywords: FTIR, Eugenia uniflora, aqueous hot extract.