A new approach for quantifying furanodiene and curzerene: a case study on the essential oils of Eugenia uniflora L., Myrtaceae (pitangueira) leaves

The essential oil obtained from the leaves of Eugenia uniflora L., Myrtaceae, which grows in the Brazilian savannah, was studied by gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC-MS). Furanodiene (1.2%) was thermally rearranged to curzerene (85.1%) to produce a combined content of 86.3%. GC analysis carried out under mild conditions (with a constant temperature of 100 ºC) showed that the furanodiene concentration was three-fold greater than the curzerene concentration, i.e., the essential oil contained 64.7% furanodiene and 21.6% curzerene. Germacrene B also rearranged to γ-elemene and the concentration of both was 2.3%. Special care should be taken when conventional gas chromatography analysis is used for quantifying compounds that can rearrange at high temperatures.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Chang,Roberto, Morais,Sérgio A. L. de, Napolitano,Danielle R., Duarte,Karina C., Guzman,Valeska B., Nascimento,Evandro A. do
Format:	Digital revista
Language:	English
Published:	Sociedade Brasileira de Farmacognosia 2011
Online Access:	http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-695X2011000300006
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