title: Rapid determination of volatile compounds emitted from Chimonanthus praecox flowers by HS-SPME-GC-MS.
abstract: A novel rapid, simple and solvent-free method was developed for determination of the volatile compounds from the flowers of Chimonanthus praecox Link using headspace solid-phase microextraction (HS-SPME) and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). The SPME conditions were firstly optimized and applied to sampling of the volatile compounds emitted from living Chimonanthus praecox L. flowers and excised Chimonanthus praecox L. flowers. Thirty-one compounds emitted from living flowers were identified for the first time, which mainly included 4-methyl-1,3-pentadiene (2.0%), a-phellandrene (4.7%), benzyl methanol (11.1%), trans-linalool oxide (furanyl ring) (5.3%), a-linalool (36.0%), methyl salicylate (24.5%) and acetic acid benzyl ester (5.9%). Comparing the emission from living flowers and excised flowers, twenty-eight compounds were found to be detected in the two emissions, and three compounds, n-pentadecane, n-cetane and n-heptadecane, were only found in the emission from the living flowers, which shows that they might be biomarker compounds.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433,China.
authors.forename: Chunhui
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Deng
authors.forename: Guoxin
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Song
authors.forename: Yaoming
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hu
mesh_terms: D002681:China; D005232:Fatty Acids, Volatile / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D035264:Flowers / Q000737:chemistry*; D008401:Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry; D019770:Lauraceae / Q000737:chemistry*; D009822:Oils, Volatile / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D015203:Reproducibility of Results
chemical_list: D005232:Fatty Acids, Volatile; D009822:Oils, Volatile