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Table 2 Chemical composition of lemon grass essential oil:

From: Liquid and vapour-phase antifungal activities of selected essential oils against candida albicans: microscopic observations and chemical characterization of cymbopogon citratus

RT (min)

Compound

Percentage

RI

6.2

Tricyclene

0.2

1009

6.4

Pinene

0.4

1036

7.1

Camphene

1.5

1066

8.6

3-carene

0.1

1141

9.0

β-myrcene

0.8

1156

9.9

Limonene

4.2

1206

11.2

β-ocimene

0.3

1228

11.4

Cineole

0.2

1233

11.7

β-ocimene

0.4

1250

12.3

n-octanal

0.1

-

13.7

6-methyl-hepten-2-one

2.9

-

16.3

Myrtanal

0.2

-

18.0

β-Citronellal

0.7

1465

19.8

Linalool

1.8

1506

21.7

β-Caryophyllene

1.9

1533

24.1

β-Citral

26.5

1680

24.2

Sabinol

0.5

1683

24.4

α-cyclocitral

0.5

-

24.5

Borneol

0.2

1698

24.6

Neryl acetate

4.0

1699

24.9

Germacrene-D

0.5

1712

25.2

β-citronellol

0.9

1722

25.5

Zingiberene

0.1

1728

25.6

α-Citral

36.2

1730

25.7

Verbenone

0.2

1733

26.1

Nerol

5.1

1757

26.3

γ-cadinene

1.3

1766

28.2

Z-carveol

0.2

1820

29.7

Geranial butyrate

0.2

1872

32.5

Caryophyllene oxide

0.8

1966

34.0

Epi-Cubenol

0.3

2037

45.2

Isoeugenol

0.5

-

46.3

Nerolic acid

0.8

-

 

Monoterpene hydrocarbons

7.9

 
 

Oxygenated monoterpenes

78.2

 
 

Sesquiterpene hydrocarbons

3.8

 
 

Oxygenated sesquiterpenes

1.6

 
 

Total of identified compound

94.5

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