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•First ever report for the synthesis of CC-IONPs using Canthium coromandelicum leaf extracts by single-step.•Polyphenols in the leaf extract played both a reducing agent and capping agent role.•Antibacterial activity and Janus green degradation of CC-IONPs was studied.
The present study was emphasized to investigate the novel use of aqueous leaf extract of Canthium coromandelicum (CC) to synthesize iron oxide nanoparticles (CC-IONPs) by reducing Iron(II) chloride. FT-IR analysis revealed that the presence of polyphenols and organic acids in CC extract, which was responsible for capping and stabilization of CC-IONPs. SEM image confirmed the spherical nature, and EDS spectrum confirmed the presence of iron peak at 6.3 keV. In addition, magnetic nature with a saturation magnetization of 20.32 emu/g was observed using vibration sample magnetometer (VSM). The biogenic synthesized CC-IONPs exhibits potential antibacterial activity against Staphylococcus aureus and Salmonella typhi. Furthermore, CC-IONPs exhibited tremendous degradation efficiency (97.23%) for Janus green B (JG) at 180 min under sunlight irradiation.