Profiling of Bioactive Constituents of Sargassum wightii Greville ex J. Agardh by GC-MS Analysis

Abstract

The work is to profile and characterize the bioactive phytochemical compounds in the marine brown seaweed, Sargassum wightii by GC-MS analysis. The three different solvents such as methanol, ethyl acetate and chloroform were used for the extraction of compounds from the seaweed. More number of bioactive compounds was identified from all the three extracts. The methanol extract showed maximum number of compounds followed by ethyl acetate and chloroform extracts. The identified compounds from the extracts comprised of alkaloids, phenols, terpenoids, flavonoids, fatty acids, ketone, benzimidazole derivatives, ethylene analogues, aminopyrimidine derivatives, benzofuran derivatives, synthetic non-steroidal estrogen, akuammiline derivatives, benzoxazepine derivatives and cyclic organic compounds.