Chemical composition of Chenopodium botrys L. (Chenopodiaceae) essential oil

Abstract

Chemical composition of essential oil isolated from aerial parts of Chenopodium botrys L. (Chenopodiaceae) collected from five different locations in the Republic of Macedonia was analysed by GC/FID/MS. Seventy five compounds were identified representing 90.02- 91.24% of the oil. The analysis has shown that the oils were rich in sesquiterpenе components (83.18-87.54%) comprising elemol acetat (9.88%-21.98%), seline-11-en-4α-ol (9.81%-13.5%), selina-3,11-dien-6α-ol (6.42%-9.71%) and elemol (5.57%-9.49%) as major oxygen containing sesquiterpenes, followed by lower content of α-eudesmol acetat (3.24%-4.11%), α-chenopodiol (2.42%-5.43%), botrydiol (1.87-5.73%) and α-chenopodiol-6-acetat (1.9%-4.73%).