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Chemical composition of leaf and flower essential oil of Lantana camara from India
Author(s) -
Khan M.,
Srivastava S. K.,
Syamasundar K. V.,
Singh M.,
Naqvi A. A.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
flavour and fragrance journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.393
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1099-1026
pISSN - 0882-5734
DOI - 10.1002/ffj.1047
Subject(s) - lantana camara , germacrene , germacrene d , chemistry , chemical composition , essential oil , verbenaceae , elemene , sesquiterpene , composition (language) , botany , lantana , food science , organic chemistry , biology , apoptosis , biochemistry , linguistics , philosophy
The chemical composition of leaves and flowers essential oils of Lantana camara from India were analysed by GC and GC–MS, which resulted in the identification of 71 and 64 constituents, representing 99.0% and 97.0% of the oils, respectively. The major constituents in the leaf oil were germacrene‐D (20.5%), γ‐elemene (10.3%), β‐caryophyllene (9.4%), β‐elemene (7.3%), α‐copaene (5.0%) and α‐cadinene (3.3%), while the major constituents in the flower oil were β‐elemene (14.5%), germacrene‐D (10.6%), α‐copaene (10.7%), α‐cadinene (7.2%), β‐caryophyllene (7.0%) and γ‐elemene (6.8%). A comparison with the chemical composition of L. camara oils of different origin showed that our oils were significantly different from others with respect to their major constituents. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.