Open AccessChemical Composition of the Essential Oil Extracted from Baeckea frutescens L. Harvested in Hai Duong Province, Vietnam using GC-MS
Author(s) -
Trần Quốc Toàn,
Chu Quang Truyen,
Phạm Thị Hồng Minh,
Phạm Quốc Long,
Luu Van Huyen,
Trần Thị Ngân,
Pham Thi Hai Ha
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
asian journal of chemistry/asian journal of chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.145
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 0975-427X
pISSN - 0970-7077
DOI - 10.14233/ajchem.2020.22451
Subject(s) - linalool , essential oil , chemistry , antifungal , traditional medicine , food science , botany , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , medicine
Baeckea frutescens is a tropical plant with great medicinal potential. The oil of B. frutescens has high inhibitory, antibacterial and antifungalproperties, especially against Staphylococcus aureus strains. The oil of B. frutescens has a spicy, bitter and warm properties thatcan cure aches and pains. In this study, the essential oils were obtained by hydrodistillation and the chemical analysis of B. frutescensessential oils was carried out using GC-MS. It was revealed that main components of leaf oil B. frutescens included 26 compounds suchas tasmanone (21.46%), β-pinene (15.64%), 1,8-cineole (11.32%), α-thujene (8.74%), α-pinene (7.18%), linalool (7.44%), terpinen-4-ol(5.11%), α-terpineol (4.46%), γ-terpinene (3.37%), o-cymene (2.72%). The results open new directions in the application of compoundsin B. frutescens essential oils to expand research and development of pharmaceutical, cosmetic and food industries.