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Journal of Organic & Inorganic Chemistry
ISSN: 2472-1123
Advanced Chemistry 2019
2
nd
European Congress on
Advanced Chemistry
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urmeric belongs to the Ginger Family. It has revealed numerous medical
studies about the importance of turmeric in the treatment of a large
number of illnesses beginning of cancers, leading to Alzheimer disease.
This study investigates the best methods to isolate, purify and identify the
chemical composition and the important biological activity of turmeric. The
turmeric was bought from market. The plant used in research was classified
as Turmeric (
Curcuma longa L
). The percentage of moisture in the dried
samples was assessed. The results showed that the moisture content of
turmeric tubers was 12%. Various compounds of dry turmeric rhizomes were
extracted by ethanol, GC-MS analysis was performed for this extract which
showed the presence of a large number of compounds belonging to different
types of terpenes and aromatic compounds. The largest component of these
compounds was turomene (19.0%), zingiberen (17.0%) and curcumin (20%).
Isolation of curcumin from ethanolic extract was done. Curcumin epoxide
was synthesized by using mcpba thermally. Antifungal activity of the new
compound curcumin epoxide was studied against the fungi
(Candida albican,
Aspergillus parasiticus, Fusarium proleferatum, Penicillium verrucosum and
Aspergillus niger)
and the results were highly positive.
Myassemih@uqu.edu.saIsolation, thermal reaction and application of
curcumin
Manal Y Sameeh
Al Leith University College, Saudi Arabia
Manal Y Sameeh, J Org Inorg Chem 2019, Volume:5
DOI: 10.21767/2472-1123-C2-023
Biography
Manal Y sameeh has completed her PhD from King Abdullziz
University and Postdoctoral studies from Umm Al-Quara
University. She is the Head of Chemistry Department. She has
published more than ten papers in reputed journals and has
been serving as an Editorial Board Member of repute.
Myassemih@uqu.edu.sa