- Composition and antifungal activities of the leaf essential oil of Litsea coreana from Taiwan.
Composition and antifungal activities of the leaf essential oil of Litsea coreana from Taiwan.
Natural product communications (2010-12-03)
Chen-Lung Ho, Kuang-Ping Hsu, Yen-Hsueh Tseng, Pei-Chun Liao, Eugene I-Chen Wang, Narumon Jeyashoke, Tzu-Chao Chien, Wei-Chih Dong, Yu-Chang Su
PMID21121272
ABSTRACT
The hydrodistilled leaf essential oil of Litsea coreana was analyzed by GC/FID and GC/MS. Fifty-two compounds were identified, the main components being n-decanal (27.5%), 2E,6E-farnesol (25.8%), beta-eudesmol (10.3%), ethyl n-dodecanoate (8.0%) and tau-cadinol (6.6%). Oxygenated sesquiterpenes (56.8%) and non-terpenoids (37.0%) were the predominant groups of compounds. The leaf oil exhibited excellent antifungal and anti-wood-decay fungal activities.
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