Sangeeta Jagtap
PDEA’s Baburaoji Gholap College, India
Title: Use of Curcumine, a Pharmaceutically Useful Compound in Organic Reactions
Biography
Biography: Sangeeta Jagtap
Abstract
Curcumin, mainly isolated from turmeric, for long is known for its anti-inflammatory and antioxidant activity. It is also known to be effective against neoplasms, Alzheimer's disease, Hodgkin's disease. There are large numbers of references available in literature about its biological activity and mode of action etc. Contrary to the popular belief that turmeric to be used only in household or as a medicine, we found an entirely different dimension to the whole idea of its activity. Curcumin is found to be active as catalyst. When complexed with palladium, it acts as a catalyst for coupling reactions. It catalyzes efficiently the Heck and Suzuki reactions almost upto 90-95%. The respective products have been isolated in good yield. Thus Curcumin is found to act as an efficient ligand in catalysis study.