Characterization of dichloromethane and methanol extracts from the leaves of a medicinal plant: Globimetula oreophila

• Crude extracts from the Globimetula oreophila leaves by MeOH and DCM via Soxhlet.
• Chemical compositions of extracts were identified by GC–MS and FTIR spectroscopy.
• Ketone, phenolic, sugar, acid, alcohol, cyclic, and steroid were measured.
• Extracts of Globimetula oreophila leaves can be a potential source of useful drugs.

Medicinal plants are inestimable natural resources that will continue to attract interest on drug development and their use by great majority of people across the globe for their health challenges either as curative or preventive measures. Globimetula oreophila of the family Loranthaceae is a hemi-parasitic plant that has not been explored for its acclaimed health benefits. Its ethnopharmacological uses include treatment of cancer, hypertension, diabetes, and as diuretic agent. In this study, sequential Soxhlet extraction was employed starting with dichloromethane and followed by methanol. The extracts were converted to their trimethylsilyl (TMS) and fatty acid methyl esters (FAME) derivatives and were analyzed by gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC–MS). Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy was used to determine the various functional groups present in both extracts of the plant material. The GC–MS analysis revealed the presence of sterols, fatty acids, monoarylphenolics, steryl esters, sugars, sugar alcohols, carboxylic acids, dicarboxylic acids, hydroxycarboxylic acids, ketones and alkanes.

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