Analysis of the essential oil extract from the aerial parts of southernwood herb (Artemisia abrotanum L.) that grown in Iraq by GC/MS

Abstract

Objective: this research is to identify the chemical composition of essential oil of the aerial parts of A.abrotanum L. that grown in Iraq and used recently only for decorative purpose.Method: After collection of the aerial parts the essential oil extracted by hydro-distillation using Clevenger apparatus, then the oil are analyzed by GC/MS.Result: The obtained results show the presence of 14 compounds. The most important constituents are: Eucalyptol (1, 8-cineole), O-cymene, Camphor, Terpineol, Borneol, Longipinocarvone, Limonene, and Aromadendrene.Conclusion: This study analyzes the chemical constituents of the essential oil of A.abrotanum. The essential oil extracted by hydrodistillation then analyzed by GC/MS. 14 Compounds were identified. Due to good result obtained from the essential oil from this plant so further studies chemically and clinically of the active compounds is required.

Detection of terpenes of Iraqi Artemisia abrotanum L. by GC/MS in hexane extract

“…The analysis shows the presence of major constituents like Eucalyptol (7.19%), camphor (6.31%), Borneol (8.96%), Lupeol (7.00%) and to less extent 3-Carene (2.00%), o-Cymene (2.93%), Isopergol (1.14%), Cedrene (1.38%), Caryophyllene oxide (1.99%) with minor constituents as Sabinene (0.77%), Myrtenol (0.47%), GermacreneD (0.27%), Caryophyllene (0.54%), Citronellol (0.38%), Pseduosarsapogenin (0.49%) and trans-Piperitol(0.38%) in the hexane extract of Artemisia abrotanum. The result shows matching of four compounds although there is different percentage of some the matching essential oil constituents that was done by Sarah and co-workers with the presence of cymene (3.60%), camphor (0.09%), borneol (8.38%) and Eucalyptol (1.12%) [14,15] . By comparing the constituent of essential oil with the one from Serbia the result shows cross matching with constituents like caryophylene oxide (1.6%), caryophylene (0.6%), trans-Pipertol (0.6%), camphor (3.5%) with major constituent 1, 8-cineole (10.5 %), bisabolol oxide A acetate (8.7%), germacrene D (6.5 %) and Borneol (6.0 %) [16] .…”