The phytochemical study on the wood extract of cryptocarya massoy / Muhammad Rasyid Mohd Razali

This research is to study one of Cryptocarya species which is C. massoy. This plant has been used by people at Indonesia and Papua New Guinea to treat certain diseases. It is used as an additive in flavor industry nowadays. Only a few researchers had done their research on this plant as this plant is endangered in nature. Due to the lack of information about C. massoy, the benefit of this plant is still unknown. So, in this research, the phytochemical study of the C. massoy wood extract was reviewed. This research also involved the liquid-liquid extraction of the hydrodistillate of C. massoy wood. The chemical structure drawings of the compounds are learned by ChernBioDraw Ultra 12.0 software from Cambridge Software. Meanwhile, the slide presentation is prepared by using Prezi, a virtual whiteboard from Prezi Inc. There are many methods to detect the phytochemical properties of the wood extract of this plant such as Thin Layer Chromatography (TLC) with UV-visible detection, phytochemical screening and also Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy (1H-NMR and 13C-NMR). The detection of lactones and terpenoids in the C. massoy wood extract was performed. The data from TLC, phytochemical screening and NMR spectroscopy was documented. The isolated compounds from this sample include both terpenes and lactones. Finally, the spectroscopic data of the isolated lactone was comparable with the signals for C-10 massoy lactone.