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Analyses of the essential oils of Bunium elegans (Fenzl) Freyn and B. caroides (Boiss.) Hausskn. ex Bornm., using GC, GC/MS, and13 C-NMR spectroscopy resulted in identification of their chemical constituents. The oils of both species contain mainly the sesquiterpene hydrocarbons germacrene-D and E-caryophyllene, which amounted to 24.1% and 38% for B. elegans and 22.1% and 26.6% for B. caroides respectively. The oil of B. caroides contained the monoterpenes α-pinene and Z-β-ocimene in 4.1 and 5.9% respectively, while traces of monoterpenes were detected for B. elegans. On the other hand, in B. caroides the phenylpropanoid derivatives asaricin (7.5%) and dillapiole (10.2%) were among the major constituents.
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Published in Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 4, pp. 335–336, July–August, 2005.
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Jassbi, A.R., Mehrdad, M., Soleimani, M. et al. Chemical Composition of the Essential Oils of Bunium elegans and Bunium caroides . Chem Nat Compd 41, 415–417 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10600-005-0165-0
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