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Pak. J. Bot., 46(6): 2051-2056, 2014.

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PHYTOCHEMICAL SCREENING OF VOLATILE CONSTITUENTS FROM AERIAL PARTS OF MURRAYA PANICULATA

SHAZIA SHAH^3*, SUMAYYA SAIED^1, AZHAR MAHMOOD² AND ABDUL MALIK⁴

Abstract: The volatile components of the aerial parts of Murraya paniculata have been analyzed by GC and GC-MS, revealing the presence of forty eight compounds. Identifications were made by their respective characteristic mass fragmentation pattern, with the help of NIST mass spectral search program and GC-MS Library. These identities were further authenticated by comparison of their calculated Kovat’s retention indices (RI) with those cited in literature.

Key words: Murraya paniculata, Rutaceae, Volatile constituents, GC, GC-MS.

¹Department of Chemistry, University of Karachi, Karachi-75720, Pakistan,

²PNEC National University of Sciences and Technology, Karachi-75270, Pakistan,

³Department of Chemistry, Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science & Technology, Gulshan-e-Iqbal Campus, Karachi-75300, Pakistan,

⁴HEJ Research Institute of Chemistry, International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences,  University of Karachi, Karachi-75720, Pakistan.

*Corresponding author's e-mail: shaziaorg@yahoo.com; contact: Tel +923242446760