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[Analysis of essential oil from different organs of Caryopteris tangutica]
1College of Life Sciences,Shanxi Normal University/Key Laboratory of Medicinal Plant Resources and Natural Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Ministry of Education, Xi'an 710062, China. yanping1225@stu.snnu.edu.cn
Objective:
To study the main chemical components of essential oils from Caryopteris tangutica.
Methods:
The chemical compositions of essential oils obtained by hydrodistillation from different organs of Caryopteris tangutica were separately analyzed and identified by GC-MS and Kovats retention index. The relative contents of the components by the peak-area normalization method adopted in gas chromatography.
Results:
13.48 and 42 components were separately identified from stems, leaves and flowers. The components and relative contents of the leaves were similar with the flowers, and the main constituents were Myrtenal (2.73%, 1.69%), trans-Pinocarvyl acetate (46.69%, 55.48%), Myrtenyl acetate (1.17%, 1.42%), beta-Cedrene (1.62%, 3.21%), Caryophyllene oxide (1.67%, 2.73%) and so on. The components of the stems were different from others, and the main constituents were hexadecanoic acid (47.32%), trans-Pinocarvyl acetate (24.19%), phytol (0.77%).
Conclusion:
The components and relative contents of the essential oils among stems, leaves and flowers were distinctly different, and each of them had a great range of potential utilities and a prospect of development.
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