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Chemical Composition of Hypericum rumeliacum Boiss . Essential Oil. A New Chemotype of This Pharmacologically Valuable Species?
Author(s) -
Radulović Niko S.,
Blagojević Polina D.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
chemistry and biodiversity
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.427
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1612-1880
pISSN - 1612-1872
DOI - 10.1002/cbdv.201200139
Subject(s) - chemotype , hypericum , essential oil , limonene , chemistry , botany , undecane , germacrene , chemical composition , composition (language) , horticulture , biology , stereochemistry , organic chemistry , linguistics , philosophy
Analysis by GC and GC/MS of the essential‐oil samples obtained from dry above‐ground parts of Hypericum rumeliacum Boiss . (collected in the flowering and fruit‐forming vegetative stages) allowed the identification of 212 components in total, comprising ≥97.8% of the total oil composition. In the flowering phase, the major identified volatile compounds were undecane (6.6%), dodecanal (10.8%), and germacrene D (14.1%), whereas α ‐pinene (7.3%), β ‐pinene (26.1%), ( Z )‐ β ‐ocimene (8.5%), ( E )‐ β ‐ocimene (10.2%), bicyclogermacrene (7.7%), and germacrene D (15.1%) were dominant in the fruit‐forming phase. Some of the minor constituents found in the studied oil samples ( e.g. , a homologous series of four 6‐alkyl‐5,6‐dihydro‐2 H ‐pyran‐2‐ones, i.e. , massoia dodeca‐, trideca‐, tetradeca‐, and hexadecalactones) have a restricted occurrence in the Plant Kingdom, and their presence in Hypericum L. spp. has not been previously reported. The chemical compositions of the herein studied additional 34 oils obtained from selected Hypericum taxa were compared using multivariate statistical analysis (agglomerative hierarchical cluster analysis and principal component analysis). The results of these statistical analyses could not be used to either confirm or discard the existence of different H. rumeliacum chemotypes. However, they have implied that the volatile profile of this plant species is determined by the stage of its phenological development.