eng Science and Education Publishing World Journal of Chemical Education 2375-1657 2023-06-06 11 2 17 20 10.12691/wjce-11-2-3 WJCE20231123 article Taqarrub Hossain 1 Danielle Spencer 1 Richard W. Denton rdenton@mec.cuny.edu 1 Department of Chemistry and Environmental Science, Medgar Evers College- CUNY, Brooklyn, NY, USA The extraction of trimyristin from nutmeg, a species of the genus Myristica fragrans, is a typical experiment executed in the organic chemistry teaching laboratory. In this vein, trimyristin was extracted from nutmeg using the microwave-assisted extraction (MEA) method with 95% ethanol and diethyl ether. This MEA procedure promised to be more practical than pre-existing protocols utilized in the undergraduate teaching laboratory. This study established ethanol, a greener solvent than diethyl ether, as more efficient with up to 20% isolated crude yield for extracting this triglyceride from nutmeg using MEA. The recrystallized trimyristin was characterized by melting point, IR, 1H-, and 13C-NMR spectroscopy. http://pubs.sciepub.com/wjce/11/2/3/wjce-11-2-3.pdf microwave-assisted extraction trimyristin ethanol undergraduate organic chemistry laboratory