PHOTOCHEMICAL STUDIES ON THE CONSTITUENTS OF SENECIO RACEMOSUS RHYNCHOSIA MINIMA AND FOCUS CARICA

Abstract

The work present in this thesis is based on the phytochemical investigations on three plants, two of which are indigenous namely, Ficus carica (Fig) and Rhynchosia minima and one is of Turkish origin, Senecio racemosus. Part-A describes the phytochemical studies on S. racemosus which resulted in the isolation and characterization of thirteen compounds, out of which five are new