Chemical composition of the essential oil of Jacobaea maritima (L.) Pelser & Meijden and Jacobaea maritima subsp. bicolor (Willd.) B. Nord. & Greuter (Asteraceae) collected wild in Croatia and Sicily,respectively |
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| Authors: | Antonella Maggio Alessandro Venditti Felice Senatore Carmen Formisano |
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| Institution: | 1. Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche Chimiche e Farmaceutiche (STEBICEF), Università di Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, Parco d'Orleans II, 90128Palermo, Italy;2. Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Roma ‘La Sapienza’, Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5, IT-00185Roma, Italy;3. Department of Pharmacy, University of Naples ‘Federico II’, Via D. Montesano, 49 – 80131Naples, Italy |
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| Abstract: | In this study, the chemical compositions of the essential oils from aerial parts (JmA) and radices (JmR) of Jacobaea maritima (L.) Pelser & Meijden, collected in Croatia, and of Jacobaea maritima subsp. bicolor (Willd.) B. Nord. & Greuter, collected in Sicily, were evaluated by using gas chromatography and gas chromatography–mass spectrometry. The main components of the essential oil from J. maritima, both in JmA and JmR, were pentacosane (15.7%), heptacosane (13.1%) and nonacosane (8.1%) whereas the essential oil from J. maritima subsp. bicolor was characterised by the presence of hexadecanoic acid (14.6%), caryophyllene oxide (9.3%) and hexahydrofarnesylacetone (6.5%). The comparison of the essential oil with other studied oils of the genus Jacobaea is discussed. |
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| Keywords: | Jacobaea maritima Jacobaea maritima subsp bicolor Asteraceae volatile components hydrocarbons hexadecanoic acid caryophyllene oxide |
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