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Essential Oil Compounds of Three Nepeta L. Taxa From Turkey and Their Chemotaxonomy
Corresponding Author(s) : Omer Kilic
Asian Journal of Chemistry,
Vol. 25 No. 14 (2013): Vol 25 Issue 14
Abstract
The essential oil aerial parts of Nepeta baytopii Hedge and Lamond., Nepeta cataria L. and Nepeta fissa C.A. Mey. were investigated by GC and GC-MS. The yield of oils are ca. 0.40, 0.45 and 0.50 mL/100 g, respectively. Forty six, fourty seven and forty nine compounds were identified representing 92.4, 91.2 and 92.5 % of the oil, respectively. 1,8-Cineole (23.2 %) and nepetalactone (12.8 %) in N. baytopii, nepetalactone (27.5 %) - 1,8-cineole (10.8 %) and germacrene D (9.2 %) in N. cataria, 1,8-cineole (24.3 %) and nepetalactone (17.6 %) were identified as major components in N. fissa. The chemical distribution of the essential oil compounds in the genus pattern were discussed in means of chemotaxonomy.
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