Thymus ciliatus - The highest thymol containing essential oil of the genus

Natural Product Communications

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1251-1252

  Kabouche, Ahmed ^a   Ghannadi, Alireza ^b   Kabouche, Zahia ^a  

^a Universite Mentouri Constantine   (Algeria)

^b ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Essential oil composition; Lamiaceae; P cymene; Thymol. carvacrol; Thymus ciliatus Desf.

Indexed keywords

ESSENTIAL OIL; PARA CYMENE; THYMOL; 4-CYMENE; PLANT EXTRACT; TERPENE;

ALGERIA; ANGIOSPERM; ARTICLE; DISTILLATION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; THYMUS CILIATUS; CHEMISTRY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PLANT; THYME;

LAMIACEAE; THYMUS (THYME);

GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; MONOTERPENES; OILS, VOLATILE; PLANT COMPONENTS, AERIAL; PLANT EXTRACTS; THYMOL; THYMUS PLANT;

EID: 73349106217     PISSN: 1934578X     EISSN: 15559475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1934578x0900400918     Document Type: Article

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