Ziziphus mauritiana is highly valuable shrub or small tree having thorny and evergreen which grow up to 15 m height with stem diameter  40 cm or greater in thickness. Mostly it have spread crown with many hanging branches. Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) is a technique which is used to give an infrared spectrum of absorption or emission of a solid, liquid or gas. The data was collected from Distract Attock which is consider as suitable area for Ziziphus mauritana due to climatic and edaphic condition. The area lies in scrub forest in which main species are Zizyphus, Acacia, Olea and Dedonia. Different functional groups were analyzed and differentiate, while the result has been collected in the form of interferogram (graphs) through (FT-IR). The Plant secondary metabolites was extracted from ziziphus mauritana. The methanolic solvent showed positive result for the presence saponins, phenols, lignin, glycoside and tannins, the negative response was observed in flavoinds. The peak values 2917.7, 1021.62, 557.69 538.60, 571.05, 523.27 cm¹ showed the presence of alkanes, alcohol, aliphatic amines, alkyl halide and halogen. The basic purpose of this research work was to interlink (FT-IR) and secondary metabolites by which we can enhance the commercial and industrial importance of these metabolites.

Keywords:   FT-IR; Secondary metabolite; Ziziphus mauritana,

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