Open AccessChemical Composition and Lipoxygenase Inhibitory Activity of the Essential Oil of Alstonia Angustiloba
Author(s) -
Wan Mohd Nuzul Hakimi Wan Salleh,
Muhammad Helmi Nadri,
Shamsul Khamis
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
chemistry journal of moldova
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.275
H-Index - 5
eISSN - 2345-1688
pISSN - 1857-1727
DOI - 10.19261/cjm.2021.848
Subject(s) - chemistry , essential oil , linalool , lipoxygenase , gas chromatography , chromatography , composition (language) , gas chromatography–mass spectrometry , chemical composition , food science , mass spectrometry , organic chemistry , enzyme , linguistics , philosophy
This study was aimed to investigate the chemica l compositions and lipoxygenase inhibitory activity of the essential oil from Alstonia angustiloba growing in Malaysia. The essential oils were obtained by hydrodistillation and fully characterized by gas chromatography and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. Analysis of the A. angustiloba essential oil resulted in the identification of twenty-five chemical components, attributed 90.8% of the total oil. The most abundant components of A. angustiloba oil were linalool (21.2%), 1,8-cineole (16.8%), α-terpineol (9.5%), terpinene-4-ol (8.5%), β-caryophyllene (6.2%), and caryophyllene oxide (5.2%). The essential oil displayed moderate activity towards lipoxygenase activity with IC50 value of 45.8 μg/mL.