Isolation and Identification of Methyl cinnamate from Syrian Ocimum Basilicum

Abstract

A phytochemical study of Ocimum Basilicum, a plant collected from AL-Hasakah area in Syria, led to isolate and identified the  methyl  cinnamate 1 from the chloroform extract. The purification, the isolation and the structural identification of this compound was achieved by means of the chromatographic (CC and TLC) analysis and the spectroscopic: nuclear magnetic resonance with different applications (¹H-NMR, ¹³CNMR, COSY, HMQC, HMBC) and FT-IR spectroscopy.

Keywords:  Ocimum basilicum, Methyl cinnamate, ¹H-NMR, ¹³CNMR,