Phytochemical investigation of the green part of pandanus tectorius "sanderi" leaves / Soriana Hanim Ariffin @ Sukri

Pandanaceae has been used as the traditional medicine, dye and in culinary. From the literature review, this family has high species variability. Pandanus tectorius "Sanderi" is one of the species in Pandanaceae family, widely used as a decorative plant. Based on the literature review, the leaves of this plant are green in color with the golden band along the length of it. Currently, there are limited study was done on this plant. The present study was carried out to investigate the phytochemicals in the green part of the Pandanus tectorius "Sanderi" leaves by fractionation using the column chromatography and thin layer chromatography profiling (TLC). The stationary phase used was silica gel while the mobile phase used was the hexane:acetone system with different ratios according to the polarity of the each sample eluted. Three active compounds were purified by preparative TLC with the Rr value of 0.9, 0.6, and 0.7, respectively. The antioxidant property of the crude chloroform extracts was determined by 1-dipheny-2-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) solution. Initially the antioxidant property is present however; further identification was hindered due to deterioration of the light sensitive antioxidant compound(s).