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Chemical Investigation of the Bark of Adenanthera Pavonina Linn

Arzumand Ara, Md. Abul Hashem and Tanvir Muslim

The chemical investigation of the bark of Adenanthera pavonina Linn. have been found to contain the reducing sugar (1.01%) as glucose. The percentages of various amino acids present in the crude protein (5.25%) were found to be aspartic acid (0.10%), threonine (0.24%), serine (0.08%), glutamic acid (0.52%), glycine (0.09%), alanine (0.07%), valine (0.10%), methionine (0.13%), isoleucine (0.06%), tyrosine (0.27%), histidine (0.11%), lysine (0.88%) and arginine (0.25%). The fatty acid composition were found to be lauric (5.23%), palmitic (38.16%), oleic acid (6.29%) and stearic acid (8.93%).