PHYTO COMPOUNDS IDENTIFIED IN THE METHANOL EXTRACT OF SPHAGNETICOLA TRILOBATA USING GC-MSAshmita Chhikara, Preety Rohilla, and Pushpa DahiyaAbstract Medicinal plants play a significant role in the effective treatment of various disorders. Healing and health giving with herbs is already taking boom in pharmaceutical industry. As certain plants possess highly effective phytocompounds endowed with potential treatments capabilities for various disorders like free radicles, microbial infections, tumorous growth, diabetes, inflammations and further more. Natural products play significant role in pharmaceutical world as they are high ability to bind and change the cellular target in affected area. Lesser seen after effects along with affordable prices highlights them and being naturally present makes them easily accessible. Sphagneticola trilobata is selected in the present study looking at its vast medicinal potential in literature as being potential therapeutic. Current study is based on highlighting various active compounds in methanol plant extract of Sphagneticola trilobata via Gas Chromatography- Mass Spectroscopy (GC-MS) using vegetative aerial parts. Herein 17 main compounds were identified using standard protocol of GC-MS. Major compounds revealed includes Acetyl chloride (17.94%), Dlimonene (2.22%), Caryophyllene (1.53%), Phenol, 2,4 bis- (1,1dimethylethyl) (3.17%), Cyclooctasiloxanehexadecamethyl (2.69%), Dibutyl phthalate (3.70%), Dehydroabietic acid (17.39%), and Abietic acid (11.29%). These findings support the medicinal potential of the plant and furthermore studies are required to elucidate the mechanism of action of these phytocompounds in treating diversified disorders |