Artemisia Persica Research Articles

Chemical Composition of the Essential Oil from Aerial Parts, Leaves, Flowers and Roots of Artemisia persica Boiss. from Iran

Sixty constituents were identified in essential oil from aerial parts, leaves, flowers and roots of Artemisia persica Boiss. from Iran. The oils were obtained by hydrodistillation and the composition of the oils were analyzed by a combination of GC and GC/MS. The oils obtained from aerial parts were rich in (Z)-ocimenone (39.6%), ascaridole (16.0%) and α-terpinene (10.0%). The major components of the leaves oil were cis-sabinene hydrate (38.8%) and terpinolene (13.3%). The flowers oil was characterized by higher amounts of cis-sabinene hydrate (41.2%) and ethyl 2-nonynoate (24.4%). β-Cedren-9-one (76.7%) was the predominant compound in the roots oil.

Phytochemical Study of Artemisia persica Boiss. and Evaluation of its Antiplasmodial Activity

Introduction: The genus Artemisia is one of the largest and most widely distributed of the nearly 100 genera in the tribe Anthemideae of the Asteraceae. Considering to different compounds exist in Artemisia spp. They have a wide variety of biological activity.

Constituents of the Essential Oil ofArtemisia persica

ABSTRACT The essential oil from Artemisia persica (Compositae) from Ladakh, India, was found to contain mainly functionalized monoterpenes with artemisyl (artemisia ketone, yomogi alcohol) and thujyl skeleton (sabinene, trans-sabinol, cis- and trans-sabinene hydrate, α- and β-thujone, thujenal, trans-sabinyl acetate).

Scopoletin sesquiterpene ethers from Artemisia persica

The roots of Artemisia persica afforded in addition to isofraxidin-derived sesquiterpene ethers, the scopoletin farnesyl ether scopofarnol and the new scopoletin drimenyl ether scopodrimol A. The structures and stereochemistries were elucidated by spectroscopic methods. According to the leaf morphology the accumulation of coumarin sesquiterpene ethers also suggests that the species should be transferred from the section Absinthium to the section Abrotanum.