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- Title
NATURAL COMPOUNDS OF PALESTINE FLORA. COMPARISON ANALYSIS BY STATIC HEADSPACE AND STEAM DISTILLATION GC-MS OF SEMIVOLATILE SECONDARY METABOLITES FROM LEAVES OF CULTIVATED PALESTINIAN MAJORANA SYRIACA.
- Authors
Abu-Lafi, Saleh; Odeh, Imad; Dewik, Hasan; Qabajah, Mohammed; Imam, Amin; Dembitsky, Valery M.; Hanus, Lumir O.
- Abstract
Background: A comparative analysis by using static headspace (HS) and steam distillation (SD) GC-MS of the volatile and the semi-volatile secondary metabolites from leaves of cultivated Majorana syriaca. Methods: The essential oils endogenous to cultivated thyme were isolated and identified by HS-GC-MS technology and compared to those from SD-GC-MS. Results: The HS-GC-MS results showed that the Palestinian cultivated thyme is rich in monoterpene hydrocarbons and phenolic monoterpenes such as α-phellandrene, α-pinene, β-myrcene, m-cymene, p-cymene, γ-terpinene, thymol and carvacrol. In all the samples γ-terpinene, p-cymene, thymol and carvacrol were the most abundant compounds. Conclusions: HS and SD-GC-MS have proved that most of the cultivated thyme samples examined has thymol isomer as the major phenolic constituent.
- Subjects
AROMATIC compounds; ORIGANUM; METABOLITES; THYMES; LEAVES; ESSENTIAL oils; HYDROCARBONS; MONOTERPENES; THYMOL; COMPARATIVE studies
- Publication
Biomedical Papers of the Medical Faculty of Palacky University in Olomouc, 2007, Vol 151, Issue 1, p21
- ISSN
1213-8118
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5507/bp.2007.004