Drimenin-rich essential oils from Hertia cherifolia growing in Algeria

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The hydrodistilled oil from crushed dry leaves of Hertia cherifolia which is endemic to Algeria and Tunisia collected from Ain Fekroun (Oum el Bouaghi, Algeria) were analyzed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry to afford 36 components accounting for 99.3 % of the total oil.

the major components were found to be : Drimenin (67.5 %), 1,2-Di(2-pyridinyl)-1,2-ethanediol (11.2 %), globulol (1.7 %), Cycloheptane, 4-methylene-1-methyl-2-(2-methyl-1-propen-1-yl)-1-vinyl- (1.5 %).