Open AccessEvaluation of chemical composition in essential oils from Schefflera octophylla L. Hai Duong province in Vietnam
Author(s) -
Quốc Toản Trần,
Quoc Long Pham,
Minh Quan Pham,
Thi Kim Ngan Tran,
Phạm Trung Hiếu,
Van Huyen Luu,
V. T. Than
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
iop conference series. materials science and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1757-899X
pISSN - 1757-8981
DOI - 10.1088/1757-899x/991/1/012128
Subject(s) - essential oil , phytochemical , composition (language) , myrcene , chemical composition , chemistry , food science , traditional medicine , botany , biology , organic chemistry , medicine , limonene , art , literature
Schefflera octophylla L is a traditional medicine that exhibits a wide range of biological activities. However, the phytochemical content of S. octophylla L.essential oil is limitedly known. In the present study, S. octophylla L. grown in Hai Duong province (Vietnam) was extracted for essential oil by using hydrodistillation method. The resulted S. octophylla essential oil was further analyzed for its composition of volatile components by GC-MS analysis. Results have shown that the extraction process yielded 0.162 wt% of S. octophylla essential oil. In addition, the content of volatile substances in the obtained essential oil accounted for 97.07%, with main constituents known to have significant medicinal value such as myrcene (9.0%), elemene (6.67%), caryophylene (= caryophylene ) (24.91%), selinene (6.30%) and selinene (7.29%). These findings provide a helpful insight to S. octophylla L phytochemical profiles for further studies on the plant applications in the fields of pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, agriculture and therapeutic uses.