ISOLATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF BETAINE FROM DRIED SEEDS OF ACHYRANTHES ASP ERA

摘要

Marker compounds play an important role in standardization of herbal extracts and herbal formulations. The isolation of marker/s from crude extract or fractions of an extract is often a lengthy and expensive process and it many times requires numerous separation steps involving use of different separation techniques. The present work describes new method of isolation of betaine, a chemical marker from the plant Achyranthes aspera by preparative TLC and its characterization by chemical and spectroscopic techniques like IR, NMR and mass spectroscopy.