Chemical composition of essential oil from the bark of Croton cajucara Bentham

Silva, Fabiano Rosa da; Wisniewski, Alberto; Filho, Valdir Cechinel; Nunes, Domingos Sávio

doi:10.4025/actascitechnol.v34i3.11712

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“…According to the literature, no studies on the identification of C. mildbraedii bark essential oil components have been published. The components of the essential oil were identified by comparing their MS patterns and retention index (RI) with those of known chemicals published in the literature [ 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 , 35 , 36 , 37 , 38 , 39 , 40 , 41 , 42 , 43 , 44 , 45 , 46 , 47 , 48 , 49 , 50 ]. The chemical composition of the essential oil of C. mildbraedii bark was quantified using GC-FID and identified via GC-MS. Table 5 shows 30 compounds identified, representing 65% of all compounds detected in the GC-MS investigation of the essential oil, with 9 sesquiterpene hydrocarbons (26%), 7 oxygenated sesquiterpenes (22%) and 14 other compounds (17%).…”

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Copaifera mildbraedii Desf.: Phytochemical Composition of Extracts, Essential Oil, and In Vitro Biological Activities of Bark

Namkona,

Rahmani,

Worowounga

et al. 2024

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Copaifera mildbraedii Desf. is an evergreen tree with an umbrella-like crown. It is distributed from south-eastern Nigeria eastward to the Central African Republic (CAR). The aim of this study was to assess the chemical composition and biological activities of C. mildbraedii bark, as well as the chemical composition of the essential oil. Ethyl acetate (EtOAc) and methanol (MeOH) extracts showed a high total phenolic content (TPC) (149.9 and 148.8 mg GAE/g dry residue (dr), respectively), which was related to good antioxidant activity (DPPH) with an IC50 of 21.2 and 12.9 µg/mL, respectively. High-performance liquid chromatography coupled with diode array detector (HPLC-DAD) analysis revealed seven phenolic compounds with myricitrin (13.3 mg/g dr) and 2,4-dihydroxy-3,6-dimethyl benzoic acid (30.7 mg/g dr) as major compounds, while gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) analysis enabled detection of 13 volatile compounds (3 before and 10 after derivatization). Thirty compounds were identified in the essential oil, which corresponds to 65% of all identified compounds. Among the latter, E,E-farnesylacetone and γ-gurjunene were considered as major compounds (8.08 and 10.43%, respectively). The EtOAc extract showed a potent potential, simultaneously, against anti-acetylcholinesterase (AChE), anti-15-lipoxygenase (15-LOX), anti-xanthine oxidase (XOD), and cytotoxic (OVCAR) activities, whereas cyclohexane (CYHA) and dichloromethane (DCM) extracts showed a cytotoxic effect with high percentages of inhibition (95.2%).

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Copaifera mildbraedii Desf.: Phytochemical Composition of Extracts, Essential Oil, and In Vitro Biological Activities of Bark

Namkona,

Rahmani,

Worowounga

et al. 2024

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Chemical composition and antimicrobial activity of essential oils of a Croton tetradenius Baill. germplasm

Almeida-Pereira

Nogueira

Barbosa

et al. 2019

Journal of Essential Oil Research

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The Importance of Neglected and Underutilized Medicinal Plants from South America in Modern Pharmaceutical Sciences

Shahrajabian

Cheng

Sun

2023

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The world needs a paradigm change from the current views on many plants to secure both future food and nutrition. Many neglected and underutilized plants, specially medicinal and aromatic plants, are nutrient dense, appropriate in diversifying diets, provide enough vitamins and micronutrients for people, high resistant to diseases and pests, and can be adapted in many regions and of course with tremendous pharmaceutical benefits. Many of the medicinal plant species which were common in traditional medicine, are still neglected and underutilized, especially in developing and under-developing countries. Lack of attention to these plants means that their potential medicinal properties underexploited and underestimated. The searches focused on publications from 1980 to July 2021 using PubMed, Google Scholar, Science Direct, and Scopus databases. Review of the literature was carried out according to the keywords, "medicinal plants", "neglected plants", "underutilized plants", "aromatic plants", "traditional medicine science", and "South America". In this review article, the authors have focused on medicinal values of Schinusterebinthifolius, Uncaria tomentosa, Phyllanthusamarus, Astrocaryum aculeatum, Croton cajucara, Arrabidaea chica, Bauhinia forticata, Copaifera langsdorffii, Cordia verbenacea, Caesalpinia ferrea, Salix alba L., Casearia sylvestris, Carapa guianensis, Costus spicatus, and Eugenia uniflora L., in both modern and traditional science. Although many studies have evaluated the biological characteristics of these plants, little has been done to identify and characterize its chemical components, which is certainly a niche that requires to be further explored.

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Chemical composition of essential oil from the bark of Croton cajucara Bentham

Cited by 4 publications

References 17 publications

Copaifera mildbraedii Desf.: Phytochemical Composition of Extracts, Essential Oil, and In Vitro Biological Activities of Bark

Copaifera mildbraedii Desf.: Phytochemical Composition of Extracts, Essential Oil, and In Vitro Biological Activities of Bark

Chemical composition and antimicrobial activity of essential oils of a Croton tetradenius Baill. germplasm

The Importance of Neglected and Underutilized Medicinal Plants from South America in Modern Pharmaceutical Sciences

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