Chemical Examination of Tephrosia purpurea Linn Seeds
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Department of Chemistry, Government College of Engg. & Techo, Raipur (M, P.)
Department of Chemistry, C. M. D. Post Graduate College, Bilaspur (M. P.)
Manuscript received 18 September 1978, accepted 22 December 1978
\(Tpurpurea\) Linn oil consists of palmitic, palmitoleic, stearic, oleic, linoleic and linolenic acids in the weight ratio of 38.5, 4.5, 9.4, 45.0, 2.1 and 0.5 percent. Techniques of chromatography revealed the presence of eighteen amino acids. Quantitation of amino acids by two different methods gave comparable results for all amino acids except alanine and methionine. Essential amino acid make-up is as follows :-lysine (8.5), histidine (1.74), threonine (8.03), value (2.36), phenylalanine + tyrosine (10.10), methonine + cystine (0.48) and leucine+ isoleucine (8.91) percent. The proteins are deficient in tryptophane and methionine.