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Recent Res. Devel. Agronomy & Horticulture, 2(2006): 1-12 ISBN: 81-308-0054-3
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Chemical composition, antimicrobial activities and odor descriptions of some essential oils with characteristic floral-rosy scent and of their principal aroma compounds Leopold Jirovetz1, Gernot Eller1, Gerhard Buchbauer1, Erich Schmidt2 Zapriana Denkova3, Albena S. Stoyanova3, Radosveta Nikolova3 and Margit Geissler4 1 University of Vienna, Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Diagnostics Althanstrasse 14, A-1090 Vienna, Austria; 2Kurt Kitzing Co., Hinterm Alten Schloss, D-86757 Wallerstein, Germany; 3University of Food Technologies Department of Essential Oils, 26 Maritza Boulevard, 4002 Plovdiv, Bulgaria 4 SHIMADZU-Germany, Department of GC and GC-MS, Albert-Hahn-Strasse 6-10, D-47269 Duisburg, Germany
Summary The principal aroma compounds (PACs) rose oxides, geraniol, nerol and citronellol as well as some of their derivatives and the composition of these PACs in various essentials oil with floral-rosy scent (citronella, Correspondence/Reprint request: Dr. Leopold Jirovetz, University of Vienna, Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Diagnostics, Althanstrasse 14, A-1090 Vienna, Austria. E-mail:
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3 samples of geranium, Helichrysum, palmarosa, rose and Verbena) were analyzed by GC and GC/MS. Twentyone principal aroma compounds were identified in addition to further more than 50 constituents of all samples. As main PACs (concentration higher than 3%, calculated as %-peak area) in the essential oils, citronellal (in the citronella sample), citronellol (