Actualities in the phytochemical research on selected terpenes

Scientific paper - Review paper

• Author: Igor Jerković
• Author: Željan Maleš
• Author: Maja Friščić
• Author's institution: University of Zagreb; Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry; (Department of pharmaceutical botany)
• Scientific / art field, discipline and subdiscipline: BIOMEDICINE AND HEALTHCARE; Pharmacy; Pharmacy

Abstract (english)

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 (english): Petasites species; Globularia species; oxygenated sesquiterpenes; bisabola-2,10-diene-1-one; fukinanolid (bakkenolide A); dehydrofukinone
• Language: english
• Publication type: Scientific paper - Review paper
• Publication status: Published
• Peer review: Peer review - international
• Publication version: Published version
• Journal title: Acta Pharmaceutica
• Numbering: vol. 69, no. 4, pp. 533-540
• p-ISSN: 1330-0075
• e-ISSN: 1846-9558
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/acph-2020-0036
• URN:NBN: urn:nbn:hr:163:979981
• Publication: 2019
• Document URL: https://hrcak.srce.hr/220896
• Type of resource: Text
• Access conditions: Open access
• Created on: 2020-04-06 17:17:29