This study was designed to examine the chemical composition of essential oil and the in vitro antimicrobial activities of essential oil and methanol extract of Teucrium montanum. The inhibitory effects of essential oil and methanol extracts of T. montanum were tested against 13 bacterial and three fungal species by using disc-diffusion method. GC/MS analyses revealed that essential oil contains mainly δ-cadinene (17.19%), β-selinene (8.16%) α-calacorene (4.97%), 1,6-dimethyl-4-(1-methylethyl)-naphthalene (4.91%), caryophyllene (4.35%), copaene (4.23%), torreyol (3.91%), 4-terpineol (3.90%), cadina-1,4-diene (3.39%), β-sesquiphellandrene (3.34%), τ-cadinol (3.12%) and γ-curcumene (3.18%). The essential oil has antibacterial as well as antifungal effect.

Syntheses of 2-aminothiazole derivatives of 4-hydroxy-chromene-2-one 2c-10c are reported in this paper. These compounds 2c-10c were prepared from 3-(2-bromoacetyl)-4-hydroxy-chromene-2-one 1 and corresponding thiourea derivatives 2b-10b using Hantzsch reaction. The structures of all compounds were confirmed by IR and( 1)H-NMR spectroscopy and elemental analyses. The molecules 2c-10c were evaluated for in vitro antimicrobial activity against ten bacteria and twelve fungi. All tested compounds exhibited antibacterial and antifungal activity.

This study was designed to examine the chemical composition of the essential oil and the in vitro antibacterial activities of the essential oil and methanol extract of Teucrium montanum. The inhibitory effects of the essential oil and the methanol extracts of Teucrium montanum were tested against thirteen bacterial species using the disc-diffusion method. GC/MS analyses revealed that the essential oil contained mainly sesquiterpenes, such as ?-cadinene (17.19 %), ?-selinene (8.16 %) and ?-calacorene (4.97 %). The highest activities were obtained with the essential oil of Teucrium montanum against K. pneumoniae, B. subtilis, B. mycoides, E. cloaceae and A. chlorococcum. In addition, comparison of the antibacterial activities of the essential oil and the methanol extract showed that the essential oil exhibited the stronger antibacterial activities.

The genotoxic activity of methanol extract obtained from the stem of Cotinus coggygria Scop. and synthetic gallic acid were investigated using the Drosophila sex-linked recessive lethal test (or SLRL test). In the tested methanol extract of C. coggygria (1 g), 62.50 mg of pyrocatechol equivalent of phenols was detected. Also, 46.76 mg of flavonoids and 15.75 mg of nonflavonoids were observed in 1 g of dry weight of extract. Methanol extract of C. coggygria in a concentration of 5% and 5% synthetic gallic acid were shown to be clearly genotoxic, inducing sex-linked recessive lethal mutations on the X-chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster males in all three broods

The chemical composition and antimicrobial activity of the essential oils obtained by hydrodistillation from Centaurea pannonica (Heufel) Simonkai and C. jacea L. (Asteraceae), were investigated. The essential oils were analyzed by GC and GC-MS. Forty five and twenty nine compounds were identified in the two oils, respectively. C. pannonica oil was rich in fatty acids (43.7%), with 9-octadecanoic acid (34.0%) and (Z,Z)-9,12-octadecadienoic acid (8.6%) as the major compounds. In contrast, the essential oil of C. jacea was dominated by oxygenated sesquiterpenes (43.2%), among which caryophyllene oxide (23.5%) and spathulenol (8.9%) were the major constituents. However, the oil was also characterized by an important fatty acid fraction (15.5%), with 9-octadecanoic acid (8.9%) and hexadecanoic acid (6.6%) being the main components. The antimicrobial activities of the essential oils were evaluated by the microdilution method against three Gram-positive and three Gram-negative bacteria, and one yeast. Both oils exhibited significant antimicrobial activity, especially against Gram-positive bacteria.

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