title: Review of the analytical techniques for sesquiterpenes and sesquiterpene lactones.
abstract: In this paper the analytical techniques of about the last 2 decades for sesquiterpenes including their lactones are reviewed. For sesquiterpenes, methods like GC, GC-EI-MS, GC-CI-MS, GC-MS-MS, GC-FT-IR, GC-UV, GC-AES, 13C-NMR, PY-GC-MS, HPLC, HPLC-TSP, SFE, SFC, SFC-UV are available, GC combined with MS is the most widespread. Sesquiterpene lactones can be analysed by HPLC, HPLC-TSP, HPLC-APCI, HPLC-ESI, HPLC-PB, HPLC-NMR, SFC, MEKC, GC, GC-MS, TLC and OPLC. Here HPLC is the method of choice. The usefulness of the individual methods are briefly discussed.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Pharmaceutical Biology, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany. merfort@uni-freiburg.de
authors.forename: Irmgard
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Merfort
mesh_terms: D002623:Chemistry Techniques, Analytical / Q000379:methods*; D007783:Lactones / Q000032:analysis*; D012717:Sesquiterpenes / Q000032:analysis*
chemical_list: D007783:Lactones; D012717:Sesquiterpenes