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Characterization of Non-Terpenoids in Marrubium crassidens Boiss. Essential Oil
Sanaz Hamedeyazdan1, Solmaz Asnaashari, Fatemeh Fathiazad
1Student's Research Committee, Faculty of Pharmacy, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
Purpose:
Marrubium crassidens, a plant belonging to the family Lamiaceae, was studied for its volatile components present in the aerial parts of the plant during the flowering stage.
Methods:
The essential oil of the plant obtained through hydrodistillation of the dried plant material was assessed for its chemical composition by GC/MS and GC-FID analyses.
Results:
Twenty-five compounds were identified, which constituted 94.3% of the total oil composition. The major components were identified as, m-tolualdehyde (23.3%), acetophenone (15.8%), nonacosane (13.1%), docosane (7.2%), o-tolualdehyde (4.1%), β-caryophyllene (3.8%) and caryophyllene oxide (3.4%). Non-terpenoids with 75.7% were the most abundant components of the essential oil.
Conclusion:
Overall, M. crassidens essential oil revealed to include rather higher proportions of non-terpenoid compounds compared with other species of genus Marrubium.
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