Chemical constituents of leaf essential oils of Heracleum candicans Wall. ex DC from western Himalaya of Uttarakhand, India

Abstract

The chemical constituents from leaf essential oil of Heracleum candicans Wall. ex DC was analyzed GC and GC-MS. The chemical composition of the isolated oil was characterized by 45 components having germacrene D (18.5%), 1, 8-cineole (11.8%), sabinene (2.87%), α-pinene (2.77%) (Z)-β-ocimene (2.50%), γ-terpinene (2.74%) cis-sabinene hydrate (2.04%) trans-sabinene hydrate (2.06%), linalool (4.50%), terpinen-4-ol (2.54%), germacrene D-4-ol (2.05%), caryophyllene oxide (5.16%), pimaradiene (2.65%), sandaracopimara-8-15-diene (2.02%) present as major compounds.