@phdthesis{Lukitaningsih2009,
  author    = {Lukitaningsih, Endang},
  title     = {The Exploration of whitening and sun screening compounds in bengkoang roots (Pachyrhizus erosus)},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-39562},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg},
  year      = {2009},
  abstract  = {Bengkoang roots (Phacyrhizus erosus) have been used as cosmetics materials, primarily as sun screening and skin whitening materials. Indonesia is a tropical country, which has high sunlight intensities every day. Sunlight, primarily the ultraviolet ray, causes several damages on skin; for examples, sunburn, cancer, and hyperpigmentation. Therefore, the Indonesian people need sun screening and skin whitening preparations to avoid the negative effects of ultraviolet. Up to now, active compounds in bengkoang roots which have skin whitening and sun screening activity have not been discovered yet. Therefore, the study on isolation, structure elucidation, antioxidative and anti-tyrosinase assay of active compounds in bengkoang roots has been conducted. The isolation of active compounds has been carried out by Soxhlet extraction using solvents (petroleum ether, ethyl acetate and butanol) followed by fractionated using column chromatography. The structures of the compounds were elucidated using 1D and 2D NMR spectroscopy and mass spectrometry. 13 compounds were isolated. All compounds have an antioxidative activity with the exceptions of ß-sitosterol and stigmasterol. Three isoflavonoids (i.e. daidzein; daidzein-7-O-ß-glucopyranose; 5-Hydroxy-daidzein-7-O-ß-glucopyranose), and a pterocarpan (i. e. (8,9)-Furanyl-pterocarpan-3-ol) were isolated from the ethyl acetate extract. All compounds showed tyrosinase inhibitory activity with IC50 values from 4.38 to 22.20 mM. The other compounds, i. e. 2-Butoxy-2,5-bis(hydroxymethyl)-tetrahydrofurane from the butanol extract and 4-2-(Furane-2-nyl)ethyl)-2-methyl-2,5-dihydrofurane-3-carbaldehyde from the ethyl acetate after hydrolysis extract have the tyrosinase inhibitory activity with IC50 values of 1.21 mM and 0.20 mM, respectively. Based on the results, it can be concluded that bengkoang root can be used as sun screening and skin whitening materials for cosmetics preparations, because the bengkoang root posseses many compounds which have UV absorption, antioxidative and tyrosinase inhibitory activities.},
  subject      = {Pachyrhizus erosus},
  language  = {de}
}