Isolation and Characterization of Flavonoids of the Ethanolic extracts of stems of Mimosa hamata (Willd.) by Chromatographic techniques

Since there are many bioactive compounds present in plant material containing various multi-component mixtures, their separation and determination is important to identify the active phytoconstituents responsible for pharmacological activity. Practically most of them have to be separated by column chromatographic techniques. The present study deals with the identification and characterization of bioactive principles from the stems of Mimosa hamata. The isolated fractions from the ethanolic extracts of stems of Mimosa hamata was carried out by column chromatography. For separation of a bioactive compound, the solvent system tried for column chromatography was Chloroform: Methanol in various ratios like 90:10, 80:20, 70:30, and 60:40 amongst these we could separate the first fraction at 80:20 and second fraction at 70:30. Two flavonoids compounds were isolated from the ethanolic extracts of stems of the medicinal plant Mimosa hamata (Willd). Based on chemical and spectral analyses their structures were elucidated as Quercetin and Cirsimaritin. From the above study it reveals the presence of flavonoids in the ethanolic extracts of stems of Mimosa hamata (Willd.) was isolated using column chromatography further subjected to characterization of isolated compounds including UV, IR, NMR and Mass spectroscopic study for elucidating the structure of the two separated compounds. The interpreted data concluded that, both isolated compounds are flavonoids i.e. Cirsimaritin and Quercetin. The pharmacological effect of Mimosa hamata stems may be due to the presence of its phytoconstituents flavonoids.