• Jeyabaskar Suganya
• Mahendran Radha
• Rajesh Kumar. G

Sterculia foetida Linn is a soft handsome woody tree with various pharmacological properties and they are most prevalently found in India, Thailand, Indonesia, Ghana, and Australia. The biochemically active compounds present in the plant possess good medicinal properties which have been already reported in several research papers. The present study was designed to screen the phytochemicals present in the leaf of Sterculia foetida. The leaf powder was successively extracted with polar, non-polar solvents (hexane, chloroform, methanol, ethyl acetate and aqueous) by using various standard protocol for specific secondary metabolite. Secondary metabolites present in the cells of the plant are responsible for medicinal activity of plants. The phytochemical screening of the current study confirms the presence and absence of fifteen secondary metabolites (carbohydrates, tannins, saponin,flavonoids, alkaloids, quinones, terpenoids, glycosides, triterpenoids, phenols, coumarins, proteins, cardiac glycosides, steroids, phytosterols) in the five leaf extracts. The result of the phytochemical profilingfinally revealed that the methanol leaf extract of Sterculia foetida exhibit the presence of high content of important secondary metaboliteswhich possess various pharmacological actionwhen compared with other four leaf extracts. Further, the current research would be helpful for the scientific community to identify and design the new drug molecules with better medicinal activity.

Sterculia foetida Linn, Leaves, Five solvents, Qualitative analysis, Secondary metabolites.

"PHYTOCHEMICAL SCREENING OF ACTIVE SECONDARY METABOLITES PRESENT IN THE LEAVES EXTRACTS OF STERCULIA FOETIDA LINN.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no.83-87, May-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRBK06015.pdf

"PHYTOCHEMICAL SCREENING OF ACTIVE SECONDARY METABOLITES PRESENT IN THE LEAVES EXTRACTS OF STERCULIA FOETIDA LINN.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no. pp83-87, May-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRBK06015.pdf