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Characterization of Methanolic Extracts of Agarwood Leaves K

@inproceedings{Taha2013CharacterizationOM,
  title={Characterization of Methanolic Extracts of Agarwood Leaves K},
  author={Taha},
  year={2013}
}

• Taha
• Published 2013
• Environmental Science

Tropical Agarwood (Aquilaria) is in danger of extinction in the wild due to illegal logging. It’s resin (Gaharu) is used for the production of highly valued incense throughout Asia. The methanolic crude extracts of Agarwood leaves before and after inoculation process extracted by using maceration into methanol as solvent were screened for Phytoconstituents, the extracts revealed the presence of alkaloids, tannins, saponins, flavonoids and terpenoids. Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) analysis of the plant extracts led to the identification of 14 components from the two types of Agarwood leaves extracts. It is interesting to see here that all the identified compounds from agarwood leaves Methanolic extracts contained oxygen and/or π-electrons in their molecules. Hexadecanoic acid was found to be one of the major compounds in Agarwood leaves methanolic extracts. Infrared spectroscopic analysis of the extracts of Agarwood revealed the presence of O-H, C=O, C-H, C-N, C-O, -CH2 and – CH3 bond stretching. The present study has proved the usefulness of agarwood tree for medicinal and anti corrosive purposes. The presence of phytochemicals indicates its potential as a source of useful drugs.