Bioactive Compound
Profiling and GC-MS Analysis of Ethanol Fraction of Pavonia zeylonica
Kalaivani M. and Vinodhini S.
Res. J. Chem. Environ.; Vol. 30(1); 109-114;
doi: https://doi.org/10.25303/301rjce1090114; (2026)
Abstract
Pavonia zeylonica is one of the medicinally important plants belonging to the family
Malvaceae. The present study deals with the GC-MS analysis of the ethanol extract
of the above-mentioned plant. The ethanolic leaf extract of P. zeylonica was prepared
by standard procedure and concentrated at 40 °C using a hot air oven. We subjected
the concentrated ethanol extracts to phytochemical analysis via GC-MS. The GC-MS
analyses showed the presence of 37 phytocompounds in the ethanolic extract of the
leaf of P. zeylonica, including n-hexadecanoic acid (95.7%), methyl salicylate (97.9%),
phytol (96.8%), tetradecane (97.2%), vitamin E (95.6%) and phthalic acid, di(2-propyipentyl)
ester (97.7%).
The result of the GC-MS analysis showed that the ethanolic leaf extract of P. zeylonica
contains many pharmacologically important bioactive compounds. However, P. zeylonica
is an important medicinal plant used in the traditional system of medicine to cure
many diseases. So, there is a need for further studies to isolate and identify the
specific phytocompounds involved in controlling diseases which may lead to drug
development.
