Chemical composition of the essential oil of Salvia multicaulis Vahl. var. simplicifolia Boiss. growing wild in Lebanon.
The essential oil of aerial parts of Salvia multicaulis Vahl. var. simplicifolia Boiss. (Lamiaceae) growing wild in Lebanon was obtained by hydrodistillation and was analysed by GC and GC-MS. 67 compounds constituting 95.2% of the oil were identified, the major components being alpha-copaene (8.0%), alpha-pinene (6.6%), myrtenol (5.7%), trans-sabinyl acetate (5.3%).
Senatore
Felice
F
Dipartimento di Chimica delle Sostanze Naturali, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy. fesenato@unina.it
Arnold
Nelly Apostolides
NA
Piozzi
Franco
F
D008401:Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry; D007861:Lebanon; D009822:Oils, Volatile / Q000737:chemistry*; D027544:Salvia / Q000737:chemistry*
D009822:Oils, Volatile