Chemical composition of essential oils of Grindelia squarrosa and G. hirsutula.

The essential oils of Grindelia squarrosa (Pursh) Dunal and G. hirsutula Hook. & Am. cultivated in Romania were isolated by hydrodistillation. The essential oils were analyzed by a combination of GC-FID and GC-MS. The identification of the constituents was achieved from their retention indices and comparison of their MS data with computer library database and literature data. The fifty-six identified constituents accounted for 72.1-81.3% of the oils. The oils were found to contain a-pinene, beta-pinene, limonene, borneol, bornyl acetate and germacrene D as main constituents. The oils obtained from the two species showed small differences in chemical composition. However, menthol, menthone and pulegone were detected only in the essential oil of G. hirsutula.

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Katalin Veres, Orsolya Roza, Eszter Laczkó-Zöld, Judit Hohmann. Chemical composition of essential oils of Grindelia squarrosa and G. hirsutula. Natural product communications. 2014 Apr;9(4):573-4

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