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. 2022 Jan 3;12:805391. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2021.805391

TABLE 1.

Chemical composition of O. basilicum.

Part of plant Major constituent % Reference
Seed Linalool 31.6 Stanojevic et al. (2017)
Chavicol 23.8
Linalool 35.99 Mehdizadeh et al. (2016)
1,8-cineole 22.91
p-Cymene 35.5
Eugenol 50.8 Mota et al. (2020)
Linalool 54.7
Leaf Linalool 52.1 Rezzoug et al. (2019)
Linalyl acetate 19.1
Methyl chavicol 47 Kavoosi and Amirghofran (2017)
Geranial 19
Neral 15
Methyl eugenol 42.18 Kumar et al. (2011)
Eugenol 4.89
1,8-cineole 4.88
B-Caryophyllene 4.37
Estragole 87.869 Tran et al. (2018)
Cadinol 2.922
α-Bergamotene 2.770
τ-Linalool 1.347
Linalool 29.23 Chaaban et al. (2019)
Methyl cinnamate 18.97
Eugenol 5.84
Eugenol 42.74 El Mokhtari et al. (2019)
Linalool 20.54
Eucalyptol 15.27
Estragole 55.95 Elsherbiny et al. (2016)
1,8-Cineole 10.56
Methyl eugenol 10.09
Linalool 5.57
β-Guaiene 16.89 Sundararajan et al. (2018)
Cadinol 15.66
Nona-2, 4, 6-triene 11.36
Phytol 11.68
Methyl-chavicol 52.4 Venancio et al. (2011)
Linalool 20.1
Epi-a-cadinol 5.9
Trans-a-bergamotene 5.2
Overground part Methyl eugenol 78.02 Özcan and Chalchat (2002)
α-Cubebene 6.17
Nerol 0.83
ε-Muurolene 0.74
4,7-Dimethoxy-1-indanone 21.73 Kadan et al. (2016)
Palmitic acid 7.60
Flower Linalool 72.3 Bobakulov et al. (2020)
Methyl chavicol 19.5