Journal of Chromatugraphic Sci«?nce, Vol. 47, August 2009

Table II. Seven Volalile Compounds Most Frequent)y Appearing in the Salvia Species With Their Respective StructuraJ Formulas and Mass Spectra

Yolatile Compound    StructuraJ Formulas and Mass Spectra

100

93

a-Pinene

50

27

fam nti

105 '21

*1^c

Itr innn

9|««t r

136

i

triloba contains no /3-pinene, and camphene, and S. officmalis is deprived of /^-chamigrene, thujol, and cadina-3,9-diene.

There are still other yolatile components, which remain unidentified in our experiment, yet they frequentJy appear in many investigated sagę species. For the sake of an example, compo-nent with the retention time equal to 26.01 min is present in fourteen Sałoia species, and its rela-tively highest levels are observed with S. azurea, S. pratensis, S. staminea, S. cadmica, and S. sclarea.

Camphene

20 30 40

77

53    67 ll

50 60 70 00

90 100 110 120 130

p-Pinene

27

77

jJii

107

nfrt-T-i

•21    136

p Chamigrene

10 20 30 40 50 40 70 00 90 100 110 120 IX

Conclusions

In our HS-CC-MS study, we obtained finger-print gas chromatograms of the yolatile fraction from 20 Safoia species most frequently grown in Poland. Seven yolatile compounds were identi-fied as characteristic of the prevailing mąjority of the investigated species. With four species, unique yolatile compounds were found, enabling them to act as their respective chemotaxonomic markers. With 13 species, certain yolatile compounds were identified, which (although not unique for these species) can be considered as their respective chemotaxonomic advice. With five species, an absence of the otherwise fre-quently occurring yolatile compounds was observed, which can be considered as a respec-tive chemotaxonomic advice, as well.

100

95

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Camphor

55    69

108

152

77

ll.....lift

ThujoJ

|l Mai!\_{ i| mI|I • H.|lll Ii «|Nlłl

2C 30 40 50 60

_h.

70

l*»* | in^ii minji ii

80 90 100 MO 120 IX 140 150

Cadina 3,9-dicne

20    40    60    80    100    120    140    160    180 200

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