Author(s)

Brahim Harkati, Salah Akkal, Marie Genevieve Dijoux Franca

Département de Botanique et Pharmacognosie, Faculté de Pharmacie—Ecologie Microbienne, CESN, ISPB, Lyon, France.
Laboratoire de Phytochimie et Analyses Physicochimiques et Biologiques, Département de Chimie, Faculté de Sciences Exactes, Université Mentouri Constantine, Constantine, Algérie.

The chemical composition of the volatile components of the dried roots of Scorzonera undulata ssp deliciosa collected from Algeria was determined by GC and GC/MS. The obtained results showed that the extracted oil contained nine fatty acids. The major compounds were hexadecanoic acid (42.2%), n-tetradecanoic acid (16.1%), 9-octadecenoic acid (7.7%) and 9-hexadecenoic acid (4.5%).

Asteraceae; Scorzonera undulata ssp deliciosa; Essential Oil; Fatty Acids; GC-MS

B. Harkati, S. Akkal and M. Genevieve Dijoux Franca, "Composition of the Volatile Components Extracted from the Roots of Scorzonera undulata ssp deliciosa (Guiss) Maire: From Algeria," Green and Sustainable Chemistry, Vol. 2 No. 2, 2012, pp. 59-61. doi: 10.4236/gsc.2012.22010.