Document Type : Research Paper
Author
Academic member of Research Institute of Forests and Rangelands, Medicinal Plants Department
Abstract
Salvia sclarea L. belongs to Salvia genus and Lamiaceae family. Aerial parts of plant especially inflourecence part contains essential oils with pleasant odour for perfumery industry and some of the synthetic flavours. Essential oils of the aforesaid parts was extracted by steam distillation method and also absolute was prepared by organic solvent; Hexan. Yield of essential oil was 0.4% and the latter was 2.6%. According to identification by Gas chromatograph-Mass spectrometer, there was 17 and 5 compounds in the essential oil and absolute of the plant. The most quantity of compounds belong to Linalyl acetate (77.8%), Germacrene-D (9.6%), and linalool (4.6%) in essential oil and also sclareol (50%) and linalyl acetate (14%) in the absoulute.
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