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

https://hrcak.srce.hr/220896

Publication date:

31.12.2019.

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