Essential oil constituents of Eclipta prostrata (L.) L. and Vernonia amygdalina Delile#

Natural Product Communications

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 421-424

  Ogunbinu, Akinola O ^a   Flamini, Guido ^b   Cioni, Pier L ^b   Ogunwande, Isiaka A ^c   Okeniyi, Sunday O ^a  

^a Nigeria Defense Academy   (Nigeria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c LAGOS STATE UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

(E) farnesene; Asteraceae; Eclipta prostrata; Vernonia amygdalina; humulene; muurolol; caryophyllene

Indexed keywords

ALPHA EUDESMOL; ALPHA MUUROLENE; ALPHA THUJENE; BENZALDEHYDE; BETA FARNESENE; BETA IONONE; BORNEOL; CAMPHENE; CAMPHOR; CARYOPHYLLENE; CARYOPHYLLENE OXIDE; DECANE; DODECANE; ECLIPTA PROSTRATA EXTRACT; ESSENTIAL OIL; GERMACRENE D; GUAIOL; HUMULENE; HYDROCARBON; ISOPHORONE; KAURENE DERIVATIVE; LIMONENE; LINALOOL; MYRCENE; SESQUITERPENOID; TERPENOID DERIVATIVE; TERPINEN 4 OL; TETRADECANE; UNINDEXED DRUG; VERNONIA AMYGDALINA EXTRACT; SESQUITERPENE;

ARTICLE; ASTERACEAE; BARK; CAPILLARY GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PLANT LEAF; PLANT STEM; CHEMISTRY; ECLIPTA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PLANT; VERNONIA;

ASTERACEAE; ECLIPTA PROSTRATA; VERNONIA AMYGDALINA;

ECLIPTA; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; OILS, VOLATILE; PLANT COMPONENTS, AERIAL; SESQUITERPENES; VERNONIA;

EID: 66149107395     PISSN: 1934578X     EISSN: 15559475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1934578x0900400321     Document Type: Article

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