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Rapid Collection of Floral Fragrance Volatiles using a Headspace Volatile Collection Technique for GC-MS Thermal Desorption Sampling
Published on: December 10, 2019
[Pharmacognostic research of some species of Achillea. Note 1. Volatile oils analysis]
Florenţa Gherase1, A Spac, V Dorneanu
1Disciplina de Farmacodinamie, Facultatea de Farmacie, Universitatea de Medicină şi Farmacie Gr.T. Popa Iaşi.
Abstract:
We established the hydrodistilled essential oil yields from the dried flower heads of A. collina J. Becker ex Reichenb. (collected in Austria and Romanina), A. millefolium L. (s.l.) (Romania) and of three mixtures of some species belonging to the Achillea millefolium L. group. Constitutents of the essential oils were studied by GC method. The main components of the monoterpene fraction of the oils were 1.8 cineol, camphor, and borneol. The main active principle of the volatile oil, chamazulene, was in highest concentration (53%) in the essential oil hydrodistilled from A. collina collected in Austria. The results obtained for a mixture of some species (Plafar Botoşani) differ from literature data in the presence of bisabolol, which have not been found so far in Achillea species.
