Chemical Composition of the Essential Oil from Hypericum patulum Thunb. Cultivated in Iran
2014
Morshedloo, Mohammad Reza | Yazdani, Darab | Aghayi, Fateme
The leaf essential oil of Hypericum patulum Thunb. cultivated in Iran was extracted by hydrodistillation method and its components were identified using GC and GC-MS. Forty-six components, 82.2 % of total essential oil composition, were characterized. Monoterpene hydrocarbons (62.2 %) and sesquiterpene hydrocarbons (11.6 %) were identified as the main fractions of the essential oil together with small amount of diterpens (0.3 %). The most abundant constituents were β-pinene (30.2 %), α-pinene(18.3 %), limonene (8.4 %) and α-humulene (2.3 %).
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