CHARACTERIZATION OF BIOACTIVE COMPOUNDS IN THE METHANOLIC EXTRACT OF MOSS HERPETINEURON TOCCOAE (SULL. & LESQ.) CARDOT USING GC-MS ANALYSIS

Abstract

Bryophytes are the simplest and most primitive land plants due to absence of conductive tissue system. Being small, this group of plants have been neglected for a long time. The pharmaceutical investigations of their chemical compositions in last few decades have proven their medicinal importance. Herpetineuron toccoae (Sull. & Lesq.) Cardot is a pluerocarpic moss belonging to family Anomodontaceae. The moss is cosmopolitan in distribution. The objective of present study is to analyze the presence of bioactive secondary metabolites from the methanolic extract of Herpetineuron toccoae. The phytochemical screening was carried out through gas chromatography-mass spectrometry technique. A total of 28 bioactive phytochemical compounds were isolated from the methanolic extract. These compounds were Pterin-6-carboxylic acid, Thieno [2,3-c]furan-3-carbonitrile, 2-amino-4,6-dihydro-4,4