Analysis Of The Extracts Of The Seeds Of Cassia Occidentalis For Alkaloids
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER ONE
1.0 INTRODUCTION 1
- BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY 2
- AIMS OF THE STUDY 4
- STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM 4
- SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY 5
- SCOPE OF THE STUDY 5
- LIMITATION OF THE STUDY 5
CHAPTER TWO
2.0 LITERATURE REVIEW 6
- HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF THE
ALKALOIDS 6
- OCCURRENCE AND FUNCTIONS OF
ALKALOIDS IN PLANTS 8
- PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF ALKALOIDS 9
- ALKALOIDS CLASSIFICATION 10
- PYRIDINE GROUP 11
- PYRROLIDING GROUP 12
- TROPANE GROUP 12
- INDOLIZING GROUP 12
- QUINOLINE GROUP 13
- ISOQUINOLINE GROUP 13
- PYENATHYLAMINE GROUP 14
- PHENANTHRENE GROUP 14
- INDOLE GROUP 14
- ERGOLINES 15
- BETA-CARBOLINE 15
- YOHIMBANS 16
- VINCA ALKALOIDS 16
- KRATOM 16
- TABERNANTHE – IBOGA ALKALOIDS 16
- STRYCHNS NUX-VIMICA ALKALOIDS 17
- PURINE GROUP 17
- TERPENOID GROUP 17
- ALKALOID ISOLATION 17
- ALKALOID DETECTION 19
- ALKALOID CONTENTS IN CASSIE
OCCIDENTALIS SEED 20
- PHYTOCHEMICAL CONSTITUENT
(PLANT CHEMICALS) OF CASSIA
OCCIDENTALIS LINN 22
- BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES AND CLINICAL
RESEARCH OF CASSIE OCCIDENTALIS 23
- PHARMACOLOGICAL STUDIES ON
CASSIA OCCIDENTALIS LINN 26
- EVALUATION ON IN-VITRO ANTIMICROBIAL
ACTIVITIES OF CASSIA OCCIDENTALIS LINN 29
- ISOLATION AND IDENTIFICATION OF
ANTRAQUINONE GLYCOSIDE FROM THE
SEED OF CASSIA OCCIDENTALIS LINN 30
- TWO NEW ATHRAQUINONE FROM THE
SEED OF CASSIA OCCIDENTALIS LINN 32
- EMODINE AN ANTIBACTERIAL
ANTHRAQUINONE FROM THE ROT OF
CASSIA OCCIDENTALIS LINNS 36
- ETHNOBOTALNICAL INFO AND MEDICAL
USES OF CASSIA OCCIDENTALIS LINN. 37
- CURRENT PRACTICAL USES OF
CASSIA OCCIDENTALIS 38
- SEED OF CASSIA OCCIDENTALIS AS
USED FOR MAKING GELATOMANNAN GUM 41
CHAPTER THREE
3.0 MATERIALS AND METHODOLOGY 43
- MATERIALS 43
- REAGENT USED 44
- COLLECTION AND PREPARATION OF PLANT
SEED EXTRACTS 45
- EXTRACTION 46
- TEST FOR ALKALOID 46
- DRANGENDORFF’S REAGENT TEST 47
- MAYER’S TEST 47
- WAGNER AND LUGOIL’S TEST 47
CHAPTER FOUR
4.0 RESULTS 49
- TABLE I 49
- TABLE II 50
CHAPTER FIVE
5.0 DISCUSSION, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION 51
- DISCUSSION 51
- CONCLUSION 52
- RECOMMENDATION