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K.H.C. Baser

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  Essential Oil Composition of Five Endemic Hypericum Species from Turkey
  Author(s): E. Eroglu Özkan, B. Demirci, Ç. Ünsal Gürer, S. Kültür, A. Mat and K.H.C. Baser E. Eroglu Özkan, B. Demirci, Ç. Ünsal Gürer, S. Kültür, A. Mat and K.H.C. Baser
  
  More than 465 Hypericum species exist on the Earth, widely spreading in Europe, Asia and North Africa. 42 of 80 species growing in Turkey are endemic. The chemical composition of the essential oils obtained from the aerial parts of the H. uniglandulosum Hausskn. ex Bornm., H. scabroides Robson & Poulter, H. kotschyanum Boiss., H. salsugineum Robson & Hub.-Mor. and H. thymopsis Boiss, five of the endemic species of Turkey by using the hydrodistillation method was identified by GC and GC/MS. The major components were identified as follows: 2,6-Dimethyl-3,5-heptadien-2-one (40.7%), nonacosane (3.2%), hexadecanoic acid (2.7%) and α-pinene (2.7%) in H. uniglandulosum; hexadecanoic acid (17.7%), spathulenol (5.3%), nonacosane (4.4%), dodecanoic acid (4.1%), baeckeol (4.1%) and γ-muurolene (3.9%) in H. scabroides; α-pinene (14.4%), nonacosane (11.1%), hexadecanoic a.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2167-0412.1000121

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