SYNTHESIS, CHARACTERIZATION AND ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY OF FLAVONOIDS METAL COMPLEXES OF ACANTHOSPERMUM HISPIDUM

Student: Ifedoyin Blessing Oyeleke
Supervisor: Dr Idibia Teresa Edewor
HOD: Dr Idibia Teresa Edewor
Department of Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry
Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences
Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Oyo State

Abstract

ABSTRACT Medicinal plant are plants which, in one or more of its organs, contains substances that can be used for therapeutic purpose or precursors for the synthesis of useful drugs. These substances or active agents are known as phytochemicals, the scope of this study is to screen some phytochemicals present in the plant, quantify them and carry out GC-MS analysis of the plant leaves. The plant leaves were dried under laboratory conditions and pulverized into fine powder which was extracted with Soxhlet extractor (hot extraction). The plant leaves were extracted with two solvents which are methanol and n-hexane.

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