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Phytochemical Analysis of Hot Petroleum ether Extracts of Piper nigrum

Aditi Gupta1 * , Monika Gupta1 and Sudhakar Gupta1

1 Department of Chemistry, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, 144 806 Punjab India

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12944/CWE.8.1.18

The genus Piper belongs to family piperaceae which has over 700 species distributed in both hemispheres. The piperaceae family is a source of many biologically active photochemical with tremendous potential for medicinal uses. A wide range of secondary metabolites mainly alkaloids, amides and terpenes are reported from the various species of piper which are of great economical and medicinal importance. This paper reports the isolation of various sesqueterpenes such as δ–elemene, δ–cadinene, α–copane, caryophyllene, α–caryophyllene, β–bisabolene, and methyl benzene from the oil of the hot petroleum ether extract of Piper nigrum seeds. These phytochemicals are analysed by GC-MS spectral analysis.

Piper Nigrum; Dried Fruits; Volatile Oil; GC-MS

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Gupta A, Gupta M, Gupta S. Phytochemical Analysis of Hot Petroleum ether Extracts of Piper nigrum. Curr World Environ 2013;8(1) DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.12944/CWE.8.1.18

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Gupta A, Gupta M, Gupta S. Phytochemical Analysis of Hot Petroleum ether Extracts of Piper nigrum. Curr World Environ 2012;8(1). Curr World Environ 2013;8(1). Available from: http://www.cwejournal.org/?p=3214