Acta Pharmaceutica, Vol. 69 No. 4, 2019.
Review article
https://doi.org/10.2478/acph-2020-0036
Actualities in the phytochemical research on selected terpenes
IGOR JERKOVIĆ
; University of Split, Faculty of Chemistry and Technology, HR-21000 Split, Croatia
ŽELJAN MALEŠ
; University of Zagreb Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia
MAJA FRIŠČIĆ
; University of Zagreb Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
A short review of our recent research on the essential oil phytochemical composition of Petasites albus (L.) Gaertn. and Petasites hybridus (L.) G. Gaertn., B. Mey. & Scherb. (Asteraceae) as well as on the oils of Globularia cordifolia L., Globularia meridionalis (Podp.) O. Schwarz and Globularia punctata Lapeyr. (Plantaginaceae) is presented. All essential oils contained a variety of oxygenated sesquiterpenes among their major constituents, including a bakkane type sesquiterpene fukinanolid (bakkenolide A). The paper is focused on: a) a short overview of the abundance of major terpenes in the essential oils of Petasites and Globularia species from Croatia; b) possible biosynthetic pathways of major identified sesquiterpenes; and c) biological activities (literature data) of major sesquiterpenes from Petasites and Globularia species.
Keywords
Petasites species; Globularia species; oxygenated sesquiterpenes; bisabola-2,10-diene-1-one; fukinanolid (bakkenolide A); dehydrofukinone
Hrčak ID:
220896
URI
Publication date:
31.12.2019.
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