RAM SWAROOP VERMA, KONENİ VENKATA SASHİDHARA, ANJU YADAV
Acta Pharmaceutica Sciencia - 2010;52(4):427-430
The volatile constituents of aerial parts of the blue flower rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis L.), grown in foot hills of the Himalayas were analyzed by gas chromatography (GC) and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). Forty compounds, comprising 96.38% of the oil were identified. The major constituents of the oil were camphor (15.64%), α-pinene (11.66%), 1,8-cineole (9.37%), borneol (8.36%), verbenone (8.23%), linalool (5.11%), limonene (4.34%), exo-bornyl acetate (4.05%), terpinen- 4-ol (3.91%), and camphene (3.87%).
