A STUDY ON THE CHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF EUGENOL AND EUGENOL ACETATE, CLOVE ESSENTIAL OILS

Abstract

Eugenol and eugenol acetate are a clove essential oil getting from hydrodistilltion of Syzygium aromaticum’s buds and leaves. It has antimicrobial, antioxidant, analgesic, anticancer activities and used for protecting foods from microorganisms , used as tradational medicine. Eugenol is eager to dissolve in blood and give reaction to radicalic forms of other moleculues. Because of that; It slows cancer cells formation by preventing the radicalic damage.