Abstract

STUDIES ON FTIR ANALYSIS OF FRACTION I AND II OF ANNONA SQUAMOSA METHANOL LEAF EXTRACT

M.Chandran*, R. Mangaleshwari, KR.Udhayavani and Kadarkarai Murugan

ABSTRACT

The plant Annona squamosa is native to tropical America and exotic to India. It is very common plant growing for its fruits. In this plant, all the parts such as leaves, stem, fruits, seeds and roots are used for medicinal preparations. Particularly in the rural village area of Tammilnadu state in India, this plant is used to cure the dandruff on the scalp and control the lies on the head, and to reduce the pain on the teeth. Hence, the present study has been carried out to find the functional group of phytocompounds present in the Annona squamosa. In this study, the methanol extract of the plant leaves of Annona squamosa were fractionated by using column chromatography and got two fractions. These two fractions were analyzed for their functional group by conducting FTIR study. The obtained results indicated the presence of nitro compounds, aromatic, alkanes, alcohols,carboxylic acids, esters, ether, carboxylic acids, primary, secondary amines, alkynes, alkyl halides and unknown few compounds in these two fractions.

Keywords: Annona squamosa, Phytocompounds, FTIR study, functional group, fractionation and methanol leaf extract.