Abstract

Natural product chemistry laboratory courses can be directed to isolate secondary metabolites from a medicinal plant. This course provides students with the essential skills required to perform an array of natural product chemistry procedures such as extraction, fractionation, purification, and structural elucidation of secondary metabolites. Various activities in the isolation of secondary metabolites can improve students’ higher-order thinking skills. One of the higher-order thinking skills that have been proven to be developed through natural materials chemistry practicum is critical thinking skills. Secondary metabolite compounds produced from natural product chemistry laboratory activities can be commercialized to researchers or the herbal medicine industry. The University of Mataram has established a center for the production of secondary metabolites, which initially came from the activities of the natural product chemistry laboratory. Many of the activities in this laboratory may be appropriate for other courses, such as structure elucidation, organic chemistry, and chemotaxonomy.

Concepts :

Access to Document

Citations by Year