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Chemical Composition of the Essential Oil of Withania coagulans
Asian Journal of Chemistry,
Vol. 22 No. 1 (2010): Vol 22 Issue 1, 2010
Abstract
The present research reports the chemical composition of the essential oil of Withania coagulans extracted by steam distillation and analyzed by GC-MS. The chromatographic analysis of this essential oil showed 20 compounds, representing 90.80 % of the total oil constituents. The oil contains a complex mixture consisting of sesquiterpenes, esters, acids, alkanes and aldehyde. It was dominated by sesquiterpenes (54 %) and esters (21.50 %) while alkanes, acids and aldehydes were only present in small percentage (9.11, 5.5 and 0.32 %, respectively). Thus carophyllene is present with highest percentage and allene is present with lowest percentage.
Keywords
Withania coagulans
Essential oils
Solanaceae
Carophyllene.
BAKHTAWAR, S., MUGHAL, T., & NAEEM*, I. (2009). Chemical Composition of the Essential Oil of Withania coagulans. Asian Journal of Chemistry, 22(1), 122–126. Retrieved from https://asianpubs.org/index.php/ajchem/article/view/16626
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