The essential oil from leaves of Mauria heterophylla Kunth (Anacardiaceae): chemical and enantioselective analyses

ABSTRACTThe first chemical and enantioselective analyses of the essential oil from the leaves of Mauria heterophylla Kunth were carried out. The dry plant materialproduced an essential oil with a 0.09 ± 0.05% yield by weight. The volatile fraction was submitted to GC-MS (qualitative) and GC-FID (quantitative) analyses, on two different stationary phases. A total of forty-four constituents were detected and quantified with at least one column, corresponding to about 85.5% of the whole oil mass. Limonene (15.2%), (E)-β-caryophyllene (11.1%), α-phellandrene (10.9%), germacrene D (6.6%), α-pinene (6.4%), myrcene (3.9%), β-phellandrene (2.8%), bicyclogermacrene (2.8%), (E)-β-farnesene (2.2%) and δ-cadinene (1.2%) were major components. Furthermore, the study was complemented with the enantioselective analysis of eleven common chiral terpenes, carried out on two β-cyclodextrin-based chiral selectors. Among the chiral metabolites, (1R,4S)-(+)-camphene, (1R,5R)-(+)-β-pinene, (S)-(+)-α-phellandrene and (S)-(+)-β-phellandrene were enantiomerically pure, whereas α-pinene, sabinene, limonene, linalool, terpinen-4-ol, α-terpineol and germacrene D were present as scalemic mixtures.KEYWORDS: Mauria heterophyllagas chromatographymass spectrometryenantiomersβ-cyclodextrinEcuador Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).