Chemical compositions of essential oil of piper species from atlantic forest of Amazonia, Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Araújo, Carolina Pereira
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Câmara, Cláudio Augusto Gomes da, Moraes, Marcílio Martins de, Vasconcelos, Geraldo José Nascimento de, Pereira, Marta Regina Silva, Zartman, Charles Eugene
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional do INPA
• DOI: 10.25135/rnp.110.18.09.904
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.inpa.gov.br/handle/1/15563
• topic: Alpha Eudesmol; Caryophyllene Oxide; Essential Oil; Linalool; Plant Medicinal Product; Premnaspirodiene; Unclassified Drug; Chemical Analysis; Chemical Composition; Controlled Study; Flame Ionization Detection; Hydrodistillation; Low Temperature; Mass Fragmentography; Nonhuman; Piper (plant); Piper Alatipetiolatum; Piper Curtistilum; Plant Leaf

Essential oils from the leaves of Piper japurense (Miq.) C. DC., P. coariense Yunk., P. auriculifolium Yunk., P. curtistilum C.DC., P. alatipetiolatum Yunk. and P. brevesanum Yunk. from the Amazon Forest (Brazil) were obtained through hydrodistillation. The chemical composition of the oils was determined using gas chromatography and mass spectrometry, which revealed the presence of 108 compounds representing 95.14%, 95.64%, 95.57%, 92.05%, 96.24% and 91.316% of the oils, respectively. All oils had an abundance of sesquiterpenes, except the oil from P. alatipetiolatum, which had a higher percentage of monoterpenes. The major components were α-eudesmol in the P. japurense (22.05%) and P. coariense (27.33%) oils, premnaspirodiene (32.26%) in the P. auriculifolium oil, caryophyllene oxide (28.69%) in the P. curtistilum oil, linalool (43.88%) in the P. alatipetiolatum oil and β-elemene (12.75%) in the P. brevesanum oil. Although the oils were composed of terpenes, the chemical analysis revealed qualitative and quantitative differences. This is the first report of the chemical composition of these six species of Piper that occur in the Amazonia biome in Brazil. © 2019 ACG Publications. All rights reserved.