In October 2014 the collected air-green samples of melissa
officinalis were gathered. Then the volatile oil from fresh samples
was extracted with N-hexane and other samples with steam
distillation.
Suitable conditions were chosen to separate the
components of the
volatile oil by GC-MAS and we noticed :
(25) compounds were found in the extracted volatile oil of the first
sample ( extraction by N-hexane ).
3 compounds of them are alcohol noncyclic MonoTerpine class and
they form 3,46% of the volatile oil weight, 1 alcohol cyclic
Monoterpine compound forms 1,83% of the volatile oil total
weight, 1 compound from cyclic DeTerpine class and it forms
2.31%, 2 compounds from cyclic MonoTerpine class and they form
3,14%, 2 compounds from Aldyhol group which form 52.03% from
the volatile oil's weight.
13 compounds from SesquieTerpine class with a 35,14% of the
total weight, 2 Ester compounds and they form 2,12%, and 1 acetic
compound which is Lenolenic acid with a 0,97% form the volatile
oil total weight.
