title: Composition of Achillea distans Willd. subsp. distans root essential oil.
abstract: Gas chromatography and gas chromatography/mass specteometry analyses of root volatiles of Achillea distans Willd. subsp. distans, collected from wild populations in Serbia, enabled the identification of 185 constituents, accounting for 93.6% of the total oil. Main constituents of the oil were tau-cadinol (17.6%), alismol (14.1%), alpha-cadinol (9.1%) and caryophyllene oxide (5.0%). The root oil was additionally characterised by the presence of five different amides containing the olefinic C(10) acid moieties. This is the first report on A. distans subsp. distans root volatiles and on the occurrence of piperidides and piperideides as essential oil constituents.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Nis, Bul., dr Zorana Dindica 81, 18000 Nis, Serbia. jelena217@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Jelena
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lazarevic
authors.forename: Niko
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Radulovic
authors.forename: Bojan
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Zlatkovic
authors.forename: Radosav
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Palic
mesh_terms: D031162:Achillea / Q000737:chemistry*; D015394:Molecular Structure; D009822:Oils, Volatile / Q000737:chemistry*; D010938:Plant Oils / Q000737:chemistry*; D018517:Plant Roots / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D009822:Oils, Volatile; D010938:Plant Oils