Abstract

Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometric Analyses of Potential Antioxidant Constituents from Zanthoxylum zanthoxyloides Leaves: Probing into the Role of Alkaloids

Highlights

  • Plants are a major source of phytochemicals such as alkaloids, phenols, polyphenols, tannins and terpenes.[1]

  • Based on the antioxidant activity guided liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-mass spectroscopy (MS)) dereplication process, we evaluated for the first time the antioxidant potential of the various Vacuum liquid chromatography (VLC) fractions of Z. zanthoxyloides leaves

  • This study investigated the chemical constituents of the n-butanol fractions using highperformance liquid chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry (HPLC-MS) technique

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Introduction

Plants are a major source of phytochemicals such as alkaloids, phenols, polyphenols, tannins and terpenes.[1] Research on medicinal plants is centered on phytochemistry, pharmacognosy and horticulture.[2] Research in phytochemistry tends to characterize their possible bioactive compounds, by separating them and subjecting them to detailed structural study.[3,4] These compounds are valuable health-promoting phytoconstituents of herbal preparations and plants with variable biological activities.[2] As most of the medicinal plants are not preserved, suitable analytical techniques are being employed to maintain and preserve the quality of medicinal plants.[5] Reliable and robust methodology for the analysis of medicinal plant extracts is imperative for quality control as well as drug development of new molecules.[6] Several analytical procedures based on the liquid chromatographic technique have been developed for quality control of plant extracts.[7, 8] High performance liquid chromatographic (HPLC) method coupled with mass spectroscopy (MS) (LC-MS) is one of the Citation: Ayoka TO, Nwachukwun N, Ene AC, Igwe CU, Nnadi CO. Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometric analyses of Potential Antioxidant Constituents from Zanthoxylum zanthoxyloides Leaves: Probing into the Role of Alkaloids. Trop J Nat Prod Res. 2020; 4(10):817823.

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