ISOLATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF CONSTITUENTS FROM ETHANOLIC EXTRACT OF SCINDAPSUS OFFICINALIS (ROXB.) SCHOTT. FRUITS

Nature has provided abundant plant wealth for living creatures which possess medicinal virtues. The essential value of a number of plants has long been published and the large numbers of them remain unexplored so far. In the present study, 50% ethanolic extract of fruits of plant Scindapsus officinalis (Roxb.) Schott. (Family Araceae), was purified by column chromatography which yielded three brownish sticky residues viz. compound A, B and C. Extracted compounds were further subjected to spectral analysis i.e. IR, UV, 1D NMR (1H NMR and 13C NMR) and Mass spectroscopy for structure elucidation and characterization. The findings revealed that the compound A, B and C are piperine, mixture of glycerin and ascorbic acid, and ascorbic acid respectively. Isolation of glycerol and ascorbic acid is a new finding in the present study.