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Planta Med 1996; 62(4): 332-335
DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-957896
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Composition of the Essential Oil of the Flower Heads of Matricaria perforata*

Britta Bär1 , Wulf Schultze2
  • 1Institut für Pharmazeutische Biologie, Königin-Luise-StraBe 2+4, D-14195 Berlin, Germany
  • 2Institut für Pharmazie, Abt. Pharmazeutische Biologie, BundesstraBe 43, D-20146 Hamburg, Germany
* Dedicated to Prof. H. Schilcher (Berlin) on the occasion of his 65th birthday.
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04 January 2007 (online)

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Abstract

The essential oil of the flower heads of scentless mayweed (M. perforata Mérat) was investigated. It consists of more than 50 compounds; 26 of them, together representing about 95.2% of the total oil, were identified by GC, GC/MS, and partly by 1H-NMR and UV. They can be classified into polyacetylenes (88.8%), sesquiterpenoids (5.8%), monoterpenoids (0.1%), fatty acids (0.3%), and miscellaneous compounds (5.0%). The oil was dominated by 2Z,8Z-matricaria ester (ME; 75.2%), which was accompanied by several other characteristic polyines, occurring in much lower concentrations: e.g. 8Z-2,3-dihydro-ME, 2E- and 2Z-lachnophyllum ester, 2E-dehydro-ME, and 5E,9Z-matricaria lactone.

Key words

Matricaria perforata - scentless mayweed - Asteraceae - flower essential oil - polyacetylenes - matricaria esters

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