Chemical composition of Echinophora tenuifolia subsp. sibthorpiana essential oil from Greece
Christina Georgiou, Aikaterini Koutsaviti, Ioannis Bazos and Olga Tzakou
Department of Pharmacognosy and Chemistry of Natural Products, School of Pharmacy, University of Athens, Panepistimioupoli Zographou, 157 71 Athens, Greece
Institute of Systematic Botany, Department of Ecology and Systematics, Faculty of Biology, University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis 157 84 Athens, Greece
Abstract: Aerial parts of Echinophora tenuifolia subsp. sibthorpiana were subjected to hydrodistillation and the oil obtained was analyzed by GC and GC-MS. The essential oil was dominated by the presence of monoterpenes with α -phellandrene (43.8%) being the major component, followed by the high percentage of the phenylpropanoic derivative methyleugenol (28.6%), while sesquiterpenes were not detected.
Keywords: Echinophora tenuifolia ; essential oil composition; α -phellandrene; methyleugenol. . |