Chemical Examination of Celastrus Paniculatus Seeds

Kiran Vajpai; Sharad K. Vajpai; D.K. Shrivastava

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Chemical Examination of Celastrus Paniculatus Seeds

Kiran Vajpai*, Sharad K. Vajpai and D.K. Shrivastava

¹Chemistry Department, C.M. Dubey Post Graduate College, Bilaspur, India. ²Chemistry Department, Govt. Model Science College, Bilaspur, India.

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ABSTRACT:

Celastrus paniculatus seeds has been found to contain calorie (5161 calorie/gm in defatted seeds) oil 51.04%, proteins 27.88%; carbohydrates 15.81%; ash 4.18%; moisture 3.75%. Various chromatographic techniques revealed the presence of lauric, stearic, oleic, linoleic and linolenic acids as the constituent fatty acids in the seed oil. Atomic absorption spectrophotometric analysis of seed ash indicated the presence of Cu++, Co++, Ni++, Pb++, Zn++, Fe+++, Na+ and K+ cations in it.

KEYWORDS:

Celastrus; Paniculatus; Seeds; Various; chromatographic