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. 2019 Apr 28;2019:6782495. doi: 10.1155/2019/6782495

Table 2.

Changes in the chemical composition in solutions of basil oil.

Compound IR Chemical composition of essential oil (mg/ml)
Alcohol solutions Hexane solutions
A B C D K A B C D K
Pinene <alpha-> 939 0.89 0.81 0.70 0.84 0.89 1.06 1.09 1.00 1.12 1.05
Pinene <beta-> 981 0.57 0.39 0.45 0.42 0.44 0.68 0.70 0.63 0.72 0.66
Cineole <1,8-> 1033 5.41a 5.40a 5.55a 5.57a 5.70a 5.97a 6.11a 5.72a 6.10a 5.94a
Linalool 1099 11.78a 11.29a 11.63a 11.67a 11.52a 11.07a 10.61a 10.74a 11.56a 10.89a
Menthol 1172 0.24 0.33 0.43 0.52 0,47 0.54 0.57 0.52 0.53 0.63
Methyl chavicol 1200 63.31a 64.40a 61.96a 62.21a 62.18a 62.26a 64.06a 63.31a 63.53a 63.79a
Geraniol 1254 0.29 0.29 0.38 0.31 0.32 0.31 0.32 0.38 0.36 0.37
Anethole <Z-> 1255 0.27 0.25 0.28 0.24 0.25 0.35 0.36 0.31 0.35 0.36
Eugenol 1360 0.22 0.12 0.22 0.17 0.20 0.35 0.37 0.33 0.38 0.31
Methyl cinnamate <E-> 1380 1.34 1.34 1.04 1.27 1.38 1.18 1.24 1.10 1.26 1.15
Bergamotene <alpha-trans-> 1436 0.77 0.51 0.65 0.55 0.60 0.87 0.88 0.79 0.91 0.85
Cinnamaldehyde <E-para-methoxy-> 1566 1.41 1.34 1.31 1.33 1.36 0.99 1.05 0.96 0.98 0.94
Cadinol <epi-alpha-> 1642 0.22 0.12 0.18 0.14 0.18 0.22 0.23 0.20 0.24 0.22

Designation according to Table 1. IR: retention indices (from temperature programming, using the definition of Van den Dool and Kratz [17]). Values designated with the same superscript letters for the dominant compound do not significantly differ at 5% error (Duncan's test).