Aromatic plants of Kenya: volatile constituents of leaf oils of Sphaeranthus suaveolens (Forsk) D.C. and S. bullatus Mattf
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Date
1998Author
Mwangi, J W
Achola, K J
Lwande, W
Hassanali, A
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The essential oils isolated by hydrodistillation from Sphaeranthus su av eolens (Forsk) D.C. (0.47%) and S. bullatus Mattf. (0.5%) were analyzed by GC and GC-MS. Seventy eight compounds consisting about 95% of the oil of S. suaveolens were identified while 97 constituents accounting for about 83% were identified from the leaf oil of S. bullatus, The major constituents of the leaf oil of S. sauveolens was cis-pinocamphone (63.5 %) while those of S. bullatus oil were thymol (22.0%), bornyl acetate (8.1%) and germacrene-D (7.9%).
Citation
East and Central African Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences Vol.1 No.1Publisher
Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Nairobi, The International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE),
Subject
: Sphaeranthus suaveolens (Forsk) D.C.,S. bullatus Mattf.,
Composite,
Volatile constituents,
GC-MS,
cis-Pinocamphone,
Thymol.
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- Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) [10377]