title: Chemical constituents of the essential oils of Sideritis scardica Griseb. and Sideritis raeseri Boiss and Heldr. from Bulgaria and Macedonia.
abstract: The essential oils of two species of Sideritis growing spontaneously in Bulgaria and Macedonia are reported, Sideritis scardica and Sideritis raeseri. The oils of S. scardica from different locations differed significantly: in the Macedonian sample alpha-cadinol (20%) predominated, while in the oil of Bulgarian samples the main components were diterpenic compounds and octadecenol (over 20%). This is the first report of ditrpenoids in essential oil of S. scardica. The oil of S. raeseri demonstrated a distinct chemical profile with its high concentration of sesquiterpenes, main components being germacrone (25%) and elemol acetate (15.9%). The observed qualitative variability of the oil composition of S. scardica of different geographic origin could be a result of different ecologic conditions but might also reflect the well-known tendency of some Sideritis species to hybridize.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Organic Chemistry with Centre of Phytochemistry, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria.
authors.forename: Emanuela
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kostadinova
authors.forename: Diana
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Nikolova
authors.forename: Kalina
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Alipieva
authors.forename: Marina
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Stefova
authors.forename: Gjoshe
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Stefkov
authors.forename: Lyuba
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Evstatieva
authors.forename: Vlado
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Matevski
authors.forename: Vassya
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Bankova
mesh_terms: D002031:Bulgaria; D006115:Greece; D009822:Oils, Volatile / Q000737:chemistry*; D031365:Sideritis / Q000737:chemistry*; D013045:Species Specificity; D013729:Terpenes / Q000032:analysis
chemical_list: D009822:Oils, Volatile; D013729:Terpenes