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Research Article, J Biodivers Manage Forestry Vol: 3 Issue: 4

Influence of Extraction Methods on the Composition of Essential Oils of Achillea millefolium L. from Lithuania

Hanen Marzouki1*, Alessandra Piras2, Silvia Porcedda2, Danilo Falconieri3 and Edita Bagdonaite4
1Faculté des sciences de Gafsa, Tunis, Tunisia
2Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche e Geologiche, Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Cittadella Universitaria di Monserrato, SP 8 Monserrato-Sestu Km 0,700, 09042, Monserrato, Italy
3Istituto Tecnico Industriale Statale “Michele Giua”, Via Montecassino, 09100 Cagliari, Italy
4Department of Economic Botany, Institute of Botany, Nature Research Centre, Vilnius, LT-08406, Lithuania
Corresponding author : Hanen Marzouki
Faculté des sciences de Gafsa, Tunis, Tunisia
E-mail: hanen_marzouki7@yahoo.fr
Received: August 30, 2014 Accepted: November 18, 2014 Published: November 22, 2014
Citation: Marzouki H, Piras A, Porcedda S, Falconieri D, Bagdonaite E (2014) Influence of Extraction Methods on the Composition of Essential Oils of Achillea millefolium L. from Lithuania. J Biodivers Manage Forestry 3:4. doi:10.4172/2327-4417.1000133

Abstract

Influence of Extraction Methods on the Composition of Essential Oils of Achillea millefolium L. from Lithuania

In this study, flowering aerial parts of Achillea millefolium were used as a matrix for supercritical CO2 extraction (SFE) of volatile oil. The collected extracts were analyzed by GC-FID and GC-MS methods and their composition were compared with that of the essential oil isolated by hydrodistillation (HD). The composition of the essential oil obtained by hydrodistillation and SFE methods is widely different. Indeed, the SFE volatile oil had a pale yellow color whereas the HD oil had a blue color due to the presence of chamazulene (48.0% vs. 4.3%). Other important constituents of HD oil were (E)- caryophyllene (19.5 %) and γ-muurolene (13.1%). The CO2 supercritical extract was dominated by (E)-caryophyllene (26.0%), γ-muurolene (22.0%), and caryophyllene oxide (8.1%).

Keywords: Achillea millefolium L.; Hydrodistillation; Supercritical CO2 extraction; Essential oil; Chamazulene

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