Records of Natural Products

Year: 2018 Volume: 12   Issue: 5

 

  ORIGINAL ARTICLE

3.

Composition of the Essential Oil of Salvia montbretii Benth. from Turkey

Fatma Abak, Gulsum Yildiz, Vagif Atamov and Mine Kurkcuoglu

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Unıversity, , Faculty of Science and Literature, Department of Biology, Rize , Türkiye

Anadolu University, Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmacognosy, 26470, Eskisehir, Türkiye

Abstract: The composition of the essential oil produced from aerial parts of Salvia montbretii Benth.(Lamiaceae), was analyzed by GC and GC-MS. Forty-six compounds constituting about 97.7% of the essential oil were characterized.The main compounds were characterized as b -caryophyllene (32.8%), b -pinene (9.8%), a -humulene (8.2%), 12-hydroxy- b -caryophyllene acetate (6.6%), germacrene D (4.9%) and a -pinene (4.5%).

Keywords: Salvia montbretii Benth; oil composition; b -caryophyllene; a -humulene; b -pinene. © 2018 ACG Publications. All rights reserved.