Abstract
Murraya koenigii leaves are widely used as a spice and also have several biological activities. The major active constituents are carbazole alkaloids. Quantitation by HPLC or HPTLC requires pure marker compounds, whereas nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy can be used as a quantitative technique without the requirement of a pure marker compound. An alkaloid-rich fraction was prepared from the leaves and a validated qNMR method was developed for the quantitation of nine carbazole alkaloids, namely mahanimbine, girinimbine, koenimbine, koenine, kurrayam, mukonicine, isomahanimbine, euchristine B and bismahanine. One of the major compounds, koenimbine, was isolated and quantified by HPTLC to compare the results. The results obtained by qNMR were compared with the reported yields of these compounds.
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