Antioxidant activity of Linalool

Abstract

In recent years, Essential oils from their various aromatic plants had been reported to be used in treating of many types of cancer due to their antitumor activity. In addition, numerous studies had investigated the highest capability of chemopreventive phytochemicals compound to act as anticancer drugs. In the present research, the antioxidant activity of Linalool on free radicals compounds was studied. The Antioxidant activity was performed using two methods, DPPH and Hydrogen Peroxide (H2O2) Scavenging Capacity. The DPPH scavenging activity demonstrated that Linalool had antioxidant activity comparing with ascorbic acid. Linalool demonstrated moderate antioxidant activity with 50.57471% compared with ascorbic acid that showed 86%. Meanwhile, H2O2 scavenging capacity methods investigated that Linalool exhibited moderate scavenging activity 56.36% comparing with ascorbic acid that showed 65%. The results of this study investigated that the Linalool can be used as easily accessible source of natural antioxidants. It can able to be used in the treating several types of cancers as a result of antioxidant activity of it.