Chemical composition and antioxidant properties of the essential oil of Cinnamomum altissimum Kosterm. (Lauraceae)

Siddig Ibrahim Abdelwahab; Abdalbasit Adam Mariod; Manal Mohamed Elhassan Taha; Faridah Qamaruz Zaman; Adil Hassan Ahmed Abdelmageed; Shamsul Khamis; Yasodha Sivasothy; Khalijah Awang

doi:10.1016/j.arabjc.2014.02.001

Arabian Journal of Chemistry (Jan 2017)

Chemical composition and antioxidant properties of the essential oil of Cinnamomum altissimum Kosterm. (Lauraceae)

Siddig Ibrahim Abdelwahab,
Abdalbasit Adam Mariod,
Manal Mohamed Elhassan Taha,
Faridah Qamaruz Zaman,
Adil Hassan Ahmed Abdelmageed,
Shamsul Khamis,
Yasodha Sivasothy,
Khalijah Awang

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Siddig Ibrahim Abdelwahab: Medical Research Centre, Jazan University, Jazan, Saudi Arabia
Abdalbasit Adam Mariod: College of Sciences & Art-Alkamil, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Manal Mohamed Elhassan Taha: Medical Research Centre, Jazan University, Jazan, Saudi Arabia
Faridah Qamaruz Zaman: Institute of Bioscience, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Malaysia
Adil Hassan Ahmed Abdelmageed: Faculty of Agriculture, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan
Shamsul Khamis: Institute of Bioscience, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Malaysia
Yasodha Sivasothy: Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Khalijah Awang: Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.arabjc.2014.02.001
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 131 – 135

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The essential oil of the bark of Cinnamomum altissimum Kosterm. obtained by hydrodistillation was analyzed by capillary GC and GC–MS. The oil was characterized by linalool (36.0%), methyl eugenol (12.8%), limonene (8.3%), α-terpineol (7.8%) and terpinen-4-ol (6.4%). The content of total phenolics in the extracts was determined spectrometrically according to the Folin–Ciocalteu procedure and calculated as gallic acid equivalents (GAE). A total phenolic compound was 50.41 ± 0.98 μg GAE/mg oil. The extract displayed antioxidant activities, with an IC50 value of 38.5 ± 4.72 μg/ml, using 1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) assay, and 345.2 ± 14.8 μM Fe (II)/g dry mass using ferric reducing/antioxidant power (FRAP) assay.

Published in Arabian Journal of Chemistry

ISSN: 1878-5352 (Print)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: Netherlands
LCC subjects: Science: Chemistry
Website: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/arabian-journal-of-chemistry/

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