Chemical constituents of lawang root oil
Neanne Alnafta A , Marlowe Graham A , Nicholas W. Proschogo
A * and Christopher S. P. McErlean A *
A School of Chemistry, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia.
Handling Editor: Craig Hutton
Australian Journal of Chemistry 76(3) 169-172 https://doi.org/10.1071/CH23013
Submitted: 20 January 2023 Accepted: 14 February 2023 Published: 28 April 2023
© 2023 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND)
Abstract
Spectroscopic analysis of lawang root oil identified methyl salicylate as the major component. This result contrasts with the known composition of bark-derived lawang oil, in which eugenol is the major component. The validity of the compositional analysis was confirmed by extraction of an authentic sample of plant root tissue, and comparison with the commercially available essential oil.
Keywords: chemical composition, culitlawan oil, essential oils, lawang root oil, mass spectrometry, methyl salicylate, paramao oil, structure elucidation.
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