Chemical composition of essential oil from the fiddleheads of Pteridium aquilinum L. Kuhn found in Ogoni | Zendy

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Chemical composition of essential oil from the fiddleheads of Pteridium aquilinum L. Kuhn found in Ogoni

Author(s) -

I. Nwiloh Barine,

C. Monago Comfort,

A. Uwakwe Augustine

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

journal of medicinal plants research

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 1996-0875

DOI - 10.5897/jmpr2013.5093

Subject(s) - pteridium aquilinum , essential oil , gas chromatography , chemistry , sesquiterpene , composition (language) , chemical composition , food science , organic chemistry , botany , chromatography , biology , linguistics , fern , philosophy

The present study was designed to determine the chemical composition of the essential oil from the fiddleheads of Pteridium aquilinum L. Kuhn, so as to enable more effective utilization of such bioactive ingredients. Gas chromatography analysis of the essential oil distillate revealed the presence of 40 compounds that consisted mainly of alkanes (86.60%), monoterpenes (3.20%) and sesquiterpenes (2.40%). The most representative alkanes were tetratriacontane (12.40%), hexatriacontane (8.10%) and heptacosane (8.10%). Predominant monoterpenes were γ-terpinene (0.44%) and 1, 8-cineole (0.40%), and sesquiterpenes were sesquisabinene (0.39%) and β-panasinsene (0.36%). This study when compared with the works of other authors suggested that the essential oil from the fiddleheads of P. aquilinum could play a significant role in perfumery, cosmetic, medicinal, pharmaceutical, and biodiesel industries. Key words: Essential oil, gas chromatography (GC) analysis, medicinal, Pteridium aquilinum.

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