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Review · Volume 2, Issue 5 · pp. 15–16

Plant Steroids to Phytoecdysteroids; a new chemical entity over viewed with extraction, purification, and analysis

Dipankar Ghosh1, K. S. Laddha1

  1. 1Medicinal Natural Product Research Laboratory, U.I.C.T. Mumbai 400 019, India.

Abstract

The phytochemical investigation of ecdysteroids involves the following: extraction of the plant material; separation and isolation of the constituents of interest; characterization of the isolated compounds and quantitative evaluations. Emphasis is placed more on chromatographic procedures and structural elucidations.

Keywords: Ecdysteroids; Extraction; Column chromatography; HPTLC; HPLC; NMR; MS

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