Chemical Composition of the Essential Oil from Artemisia arborescens L. Growing Wild in Algeria

Short Report

JOURNAL 293

Records of Natural Products

VOLUME & ISSUE

Year: 2010 Issue: 1 January-March

PAGES

p.87 - 90

STATISTICS

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AUTHORS

Azedine Abderrahim Kamel Belhamel, Jean-Claude Chalchat and Gilles Figuérédo

GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT

ABSTRACT

Essential oil extracted from dried aerial part of Artemisia arborescens L. collected from Bejaïa (Algeria), was analyzed by gas chromatography-flame ionization detector (GC-FID) and gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry (GC-MS). The main constituents of the essential oil were chamazulene (30.2%), β-thujone (27.8%), β-eudesmol (8.1%) and catalponol (5.5%).

KEYWORDS

Artemisia arborescens L.
essential oil
GC-FID
GC-MS
chamazulene
β-thujone.