National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692 Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Phytochemical screening is an important step which leads to the isolation of new and novel compounds. Plant Eucalyptus globulus play a pivotal role in folk medicine. The present study was conducted with the main objectives of qualitative and quantitative phytochemical analysis and determination of antioxidant properties leaf extract of E. globulus. Leaves of E. globulus was subjected to successive solvent extraction by continuous hot extraction (Soxhlet) with methanol and acetone. The major phytochemicals found in leaf extract of E. globules were flavonoids, glycosides, proteins & amino acids, saponins, steroids, phenolic compounds/tannins, and terpenoids. Whereas, the phytochemicals alkaloids were found to be absent in leaf extract of E. globulus. The quantitative estimation of phytochemicals of leaf extract of E. globules delineated that flavonoid quantity of leaf extract of E. globulus was found to be highest (11.46 GAE) followed by total phenols (5.12 GAE), and tannins (1.26 GAE).The IC50 values exhibited by leaf extract of E. globulus was found to 210 µg/mL. In conclusion, this preliminary study confirms that the leaves of E. globules has wide variety of secondary metabolites. Biological activity such as antioxidant properties of leaf extract of E. globules depicted that E. globulus could be potential drug agent of folk medicines.
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