Abstract:
A wide range of medicinal value is provided by the natural products which
are obtained from plants. The study of traditional medicinal plants and their
therapeutic properties plays a very important role in chemistry of natural
products. Due to the increasing therapeutic use of natural products interest
in this area is also increasing. The focus of this work is on methodologies that
include extraction, separation and identification of natural products. The
work was carried out by extraction of Piper betle leaves in three different
solvents and then the identification tests of the chemical constituents were
done. Different techniques such as chromatography i.e. Column
chromatography and Thin Layer Chromatography (TLC) as well as
spectroscopic techniques such as IR, UV, and NMR were used for
identification of compounds.
