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Chemical Composition of the Seed

Oil of Eryngium foetidum L. from
Cuba
a b c
Jorge A. Pino , Aristides Rosado & Victor Fuentes
a
Institute de Investigaciones para la Industria Alimenticia
(IIIA), Carr. al Guatao Km 3½ Lisa, C. Habana, 19200, Cuba
b
Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas (CNIC), C.
Habana, Cuba
c
Instituto de Investigaciones Fundamentales para
Agricultura Tropical “Alejandro de Humboldt” (INIFAT), C.
Habana, Cuba
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RESEARCHNOTE

Chemical Composition of the Seed Oil

of Eryngium foetidum L. from Cuba

JorgeA. Pino’
Instituto de Investigacionespara la Industria Alimenticia ( I . >
C a r . a1 Guatao Km 3’4 Lisa, C. Habana 19200,Cuba
Atistides Rosado
Centm Nacional de Investigaciones Cientt&zs (CNIC), C.Habana, Cuba
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Victor Fuemtcs
Instituto de Inmigaciones Fundamentialespara
Agrlcultura Tropical “Alejandm de Humboldt” (INIFAD, C.Habana, Cuba

Abstract
The seed of Eryngiumfoetidum L. of Cuban origin has been analyzed by GC and
GC/MS. Thirty-seven compounds were identified, of which carotol(19.31%), (E)-p-
farnesene (9.98%), (E)-anethole (7.43%) and a-pinene (7.6%) were the major
constituents.
Key Word Index
Eyngium foetidum, Umbelliferae, essential oil composition, carotol.

Plant Name
Eyngium foetidurn L.
Source
Cultivated plants from INIFAT experimental station in Guira de Melena, near Havana were used.
A voucher specimen is kept at the INIFAT herbarium (087).

Plant Part
Seeds of E.foetidum were collected in May 1994. The air-dried material (50 g) was comminuted and
subjected to hydrodistillation,using a Clevenger-type apparatus for 3 h to produce an oil with 0.2% yield.
Prevlous Work
The volatiles of the seed of E. foetidum have not been the subject of previous studies. Only the
essential oils from the leaves, flowers and roots were previously analyzed (1-4).

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Table I. Cbmical composition of the aeed oil of ErVngiUm fuetldum from Cuba

Compounds Percentago Compounds Percentage

a-thujene 0.02 thymol 0.06

a-pinene 7.69 undecanal 0.06
camphene 0.03 a-copaene 0.06
p-menthatriene' 0.27 dodecanal 0.04
sabinene 0.15 a-cedrene 3.39
p-pinene 0.16 p-caryophyllene 0.29
unidentified compound 1 0.03 a-santalene 0.09
myrcene 1.11 trans-p-bergamotene 0.16
a-terpinene 0.03 (2)-p-famesene 1.15
p-cymene 0.44 epi-p-santalene 1.37
limonene 0.39 (E)-p-farnesene 9.98
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y-terpinene 4.65 tingiberene 0.67

terpinolene 0.03 p-bisabolene 6.77
linalool 0.08 p-sesquiphellandrene 0.06
safranal 0.13 caryophylleneoxide 2.38
nonanal 0.57 carotol 19.31
terpinen-4-01 0.03 unidentifiedcompound 2 6.28
decanal 1.21 tetradecanal 0.09
(2)-anethole 0.45 hexadecanal 0.17
(E)-anethole 7.43

*correct isomer not identified

Unident. Comp. 1: d o (rel. int.): 120 [M*1(50). 105(1W), TI(18). 91(16), 51(10)
Unident. Comp. 2: m/s (rel. int.): 220 IWMlO), 159(100). 93(77).41(68). 91(56). 117(50)

Present Work
The oil was found to be a pale yellow liquid with a strong characteristic odor. The seed oil of
E.foetfdumwas analyzed on a Pye Unicam 204 GC equipped with FID and an SPB-1 fused silica column
(25 m x 0.25 mm, 0.25 pm film thickness). The column was temperature programmed from 60°C (4 min)
to 220°C (20 min) at 4"C/min, with hydrogen as carrier gas. The GC/MS analysis was carried out on a
JEOL JMS-DX 300 system using a column with the same characteristics.The temperature program was
the same as for the GC except that helium was used as the carrier gas. The ion source temperature was
250°C and electron energy 70 eV. Identification of components was made on the basis of their mass
spectral fragmentation and retention indices. Off-line searching using an IBM-AT computer made use
of a data base file named IDENT, created under the FOXPRO data base program from Fox Holdings.
The data base contains retention indices for two GC liquid phases, as well as molecular weight and the
six most abundant ions in the mass spectrum.
The list of components identitied in the seed oil ofE.Jbefkkrm gmwing in Cuba is presented in Table I.
The qualitative and quantitative composition of the leaf and root oils, and of the seed oil are thus rather
different. Compared to the latter oil, the lack of carotol in the leaf and root oils is striking.
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