CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF THE ESSENTIAL OILS OF OCIMUM BASILICUM L. CULTIVATED IN ROMANIA.
DANIELA BENEDEC, ILIOARA ONIGA, RADU OPREAN,
MIRCEA TAMAS
University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Iuliu Hatieganu”, Faculty of
Pharmacy, 12, I. Creanga Street, 400023, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
*corresponding author: dani_67ro@yahoo.com


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Abstract:

The quantitative and qualitative analysis of essential oils obtained from Ocimum basilicum L. (Lamiaceae), sweet basil, cultivated in Romania are reported in this paper. The essential oils were obtained from dried material harvested during flowering stage (May 2007), from plants cultivated in Romania (Cluj- sample I and Dolj- sample II), by hydrodistillation. The essential oils were analysed by gas chromatography- mass spectrometry (GS-MS). 19 compounds were found in each oil sample. The sample I contained linalool as the most abundant component (46.95 %), followed by elemene (7.84%), farnesene (6.86%) and guaiene (5.26%). The sample II contained epibicyclosesquiphellandrene, farnesene, cadinene, elemene as the most important sesquiterpenes hydrocarbons (52.97%). Comparing the composition of the analysed essential oils of basil there were revealed both the quantitative and qualitative differences concerning the major compounds.




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