Composición de aceites esenciales de diferentes especies de “pimienta” de los géneros Piper, Pimenta, Lindera, Ruta, Schinus y Zanthoxylum
Abstract
The essential oil of ten species used as pepper has been extracted by hydrodistillation: Piper borbonense, P. capense, P. retrofractum, P. nigrum, Zanthoxylum bungeanum and Z. armatum, Lindera neesiana, Ruta chalepensis, Schinus terebenthifolia, Pimenta dioica. The analyzes carried out by means of gas chromatography mass spectrometry found that all of them present β-phellandrene and derivatives of caryophyllene and phellandrene, these compounds with pungent properties being characteristic of the pepper spice. The yield of essence varies from 0.43% for R. chalepensis to 7.61% for P. borbonense. The major compounds were: P. borbonense (α-phellandrene, 12.43%), P. capense (δ-cadinene, 25.59%,), P. retrofractum (γ-cadinene, 31.63%), P. nigrum ((E) -β-caryophyllene, 22.88%), P. dioica (eugenol, 48.93%), L. neesiana (myristicin, 14.13%), R. chalepensis (2-undecanone, 64, 93%), S. therebenthifolia (δ-3-carene, 29.21%), Z. armatum (linalool, 53.30%); Z. bungeanum (linalool, 64.09%). All this shows the differences in the secondary metabolism of peppers and therefore their possible applications in different industries
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