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Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences

GC-MS STUDIES ON SELECTED RED SEAWEED (ACANTHOPHORA SPECIFERA) COLLECTED FROM GULF OF MANNAR, TAMILNADU, INDIA

R. Rajeshkumar* and K. Jeyaprakash

ABSTRACT

Acanthophora Specifera is a species of marine red seaweed and in the family Rhodomelaceae. They were freshly collected from Mandapam Coastal Area, Rameswaram Tamilnadu, India and rinsed in seawater and packed in aseptic bags for further proceedings to laboratory. Seaweeds are potential renewable resources in the marine environment. It has been used as antioxidant and antimutagen. Methanol extract was prepared for further analysis. GC-MS analysis of methanol extract of Acanthophora specifera was performed using a Shimadzu 2010 plus comprising an AOC-20i auto sampler and gas chromatograph interfaced to a mass spectrometer and a RTX-5ms column. This investigation was carried out to determine the possible chemical components from Acanthophora specifera by GC-MS analysis. In the present study twenty phytocomponents have been identified from methanol extract of Acanthophora specifera by GC-MS analysis. The results of the present study revealed the presence of Phenol, 3,5-bis (1,1-dimethylethyl), Octadecanoic acid, Tetradecanoic acid, 9,12-octadecadienoic acid (z,z), 9-octadecenoic acid (z) and Hexadecanoic acid, ethyl ester were found in this sample.

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