Siti Mariyah Ulfa

Synthesis of Thymoquinone derivatives and its activity analysis: In-silico approach

Thymoquinone derivatives which synthesized in this research is bromoalkylquinones with alkyl chain consist of seven carbons (C7) and ten carbons (C10). The synthesis was carried out by oxidation of 2,3-dimethylhydroquinone followed by alkylation using reflux for 1.5 hours. The alkylation products were successfully characterized as 5-(7-bromoheptyl)-2,3-dimethyl-1,4-benzoquinone (C7) and 5-(10-bromodecyl)-2,3-dimethyl-1,4-benzoquinone (C10) in 31.93 and 16.89%, respectively. These compounds were fully characterized using FT-IR, 1H-NMR and 13C-NMR. Thus, the activity of C7 and C10 was analyzed by in silico approach with molecular docking using macromolecule model extracted from Protein Data Bank (PDB). Macromolecules used in this research is mitochondrial translocator protein (TSPO) as an antioxidant receptor, glycogen phosphorylase (GPA) as antidiabetic receptor and phosphatase tensin homolog (PTEN) as an anticancer agent. The result showed that C7 and C10 has a very good activity as antioxidant and antidi...

Synthesis and Characterization of Polyaniline Nanoparticle by Inverse Micelle Microemulsion Method

Polyaniline (PANI) is a conductive polymer and potential for application in the electronic device manufacturing. This paper discloses a recent strategy in synthesis polyaniline nanoparticle (NP-PANI) using inverse micelle (IM) microemulsion method, and also characterization of the provided products. The synthesis step was conducted by mixing of aniline as a polymer precursor with PEG 400, n-hexane, n-butanol, ammonium persulfate and hydrochloric acid in three different reaction times, i.e. for 2, 6, and 12 hours at 26 o C. NP-PANI was afforded as a brown powder in 2.87%, 1.97% and 2.30% yield for NP-PANI-IM-2, NP-PANI-IM-6 and NP-PANI-IM-12. The characteristic on ultra violet-visible and infrared spectra exhibited NP-PANI was formed as an emeraldine salt oligomer. Moreover, their morphology was observed through scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and showed a different range of nanoparticle size, i.e. 50-62, 68-72 and 58-62 nm for NP-PANI-IM-2, NP-PANI-IM-6 and NP-PANI-IM-12, respectively. These products open the potency application in material science.