Olis essencials com a marcadors de plantes medicinals

Author

Ventayol Soler, Anna

Abstract

One of the previous requirements of the success in the Health care attention is a fast and easy access to the appropriate drugs. Despite that, the plants always have been a common source of drugs even in a traditional preparations or as pure active principles. Nowadays they are more important in the pharmaceutic world to identify plants extract that could be use as a useful form to get some pharmaceutic preparations. In this research it has been applied the gas chromatographic technique with the mass spectroscopy detector (HRCG-MS) for the determination and separation of the essentials oils in medicinal plants.
Along this project, a new analytic methodology has been developed in order to assess nine promising different compounds; hexanol, alpha-pinene, eucalyptol, linalool, decanal, linalyl acetate, eugenol, caryophyllene and benzyl salicylate.
The repeatability, linearity, quantification and detection limits of α-pinene, eucalyptol, linalol, linalyl acetate and caryophyllene have been checked. The response factors of the compounds from all the analytes under study were compared in order to simplify the quantification. Two rising techniques of extraction of essential oils known as extraction by stirring and the accelerated solvent extraction (ASE) are used. Hexane, dichloromethane, methanol and acetone have been chosen as dissolvent to use in these techniques.
Finally, it has been applied the process in a different plants and it has been studied the essential oils profile on them.

Director

Gotor Navarra, Gemma
Broto Puig, Francesc

Degree

IQS SE - Master’s Degree in Analytical Chemistry

Date

2020-01-07