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Microwave-Assisted Extraction of Trimyristin from Nutmeg using Ethanol: A Greener Approach for the Undergraduate Organic Chemistry Laboratory

1Department of Chemistry and Environmental Science, Medgar Evers College- CUNY, Brooklyn, NY, USA


World Journal of Chemical Education. 2023, Vol. 11 No. 2, 17-20
DOI: 10.12691/wjce-11-2-3
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Taqarrub Hossain, Danielle Spencer, Richard W. Denton. Microwave-Assisted Extraction of Trimyristin from Nutmeg using Ethanol: A Greener Approach for the Undergraduate Organic Chemistry Laboratory. World Journal of Chemical Education. 2023; 11(2):17-20. doi: 10.12691/wjce-11-2-3.

Correspondence to: Richard  W. Denton, Department of Chemistry and Environmental Science, Medgar Evers College- CUNY, Brooklyn, NY, USA. Email: rdenton@mec.cuny.edu

Abstract

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.

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