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Article

Influence of 60Co-γ Irradiation on the Components of Essential Oil of Curcuma

by
Chang Lei
1,†,
Jianjun Liu
1,†,
Wenchao Zhou
1,
Wei Zhou
1,
Shunxiang Li
1,2,3,* and
Dan Huang
1,2,3,*
1
State Key Laboratory of Chinese Medicine Powder and Medicine Innovation in Hunan (Incubation), Science and Technology Innovation Center, Hunan University of Chinese Medicine, Changsha 410208, China
2
Hunan Engineering Technology Research Center for Bioactive Substance Discovery of Chinese Medicine, School of Pharmacy, Hunan University of Chinese Medicine, Changsha 410208, China
3
Hunan Province Sino-US International Joint Research Center for Therapeutic Drugs of Senile Degenerative Diseases, Changsha 410208, China
*
Authors to whom correspondence should be addressed.
†
These authors contributed equally to this work.
Molecules 2023, 28(15), 5877; https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules28155877
Submission received: 16 July 2023 / Revised: 1 August 2023 / Accepted: 2 August 2023 / Published: 4 August 2023
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Spectroscopic Analysis of Bioactive Components and Chemical Constituents from Edible Plants)
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The gas chromatography–ion mobility spectrometry (GC-IMS) method is a new technology for detecting volatile organic compounds. This study was carried out to evaluate the effects of volatile aroma compounds of Curcuma essential oils (EOs) after 60Co radiation by GC-IMS. Dosages of 0, 5, and 10 kGy of 60Co were used to analyze EOs of Curcuma after 60Co irradiation (named EZ-1, EZ-2, and EZ-3). The odor fingerprints of volatile organic compounds in different EOs of Curcuma samples were constructed by headspace solid-phase microextraction and GC-IMS after irradiation. The differences in odor fingerprints of EOs were compared by principal component analysis (PCA). A total of 92 compounds were detected and 65 compounds were identified, most of which were ketones, aldehydes, esters, and a small portion were furan compounds. It was found that the volatile matter content of 0 kGy and 5 kGy was closer, and the use of 10 kGy 60Co irradiation would have an unstable effect on the EOs. In summary, it is not advisable to use a higher dose when using 60Co irradiation for sterilization of Curcuma. Due to the small gradient of irradiation dose used in the experiment, the irradiation dose can be adjusted appropriately according to the required sterilization requirements during the production and storage process of Curcuma to obtain the best irradiation conditions. GC-IMS has the advantages of GC’s high separation capability and IMS’s fast response, high resolution, and high sensitivity, and the sample requires almost no pretreatment; it can be widely used in the analysis of traditional Chinese medicines containing volatile components. It is shown that irradiation technology has good application prospects in the sterilization of traditional Chinese medicines, but the changes in irradiation dose and chemical composition must be paid attention to.

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1. Introduction

Curcuma is widely used in traditional Chinese medicine. It is often used to promote the flow of qi, eliminate blood stasis with strong effect, and relieve pain by removing the stagnation of undigested food [1]. The pharmacological effects of essential oils (EOs) in Curcuma mainly include anti-tumor, anti-inflammatory analgesic, and antiviral effects, as well as protection of the cerebral tube, influence on the nervous system, protection of the kidneys, antioxidation, termination of pregnancy and prevention of early pregnancy, liver protection, cytotoxicity effects, antidepressant effects, and anti-diabetic effects [2,3,4,5]. In particular, the anti-tumor effect has attracted the attention of many researchers and has been widely used in clinical practice. It can be seen that Curcuma, as a commonly used clinical traditional Chinese medicine in the ginger family, has great medicinal value and is worthy of our in-depth development and utilization.
An efficient and rapid sterilization method, 60Co irradiation is the use of high-energy rays produced by γ-ray ionizing radiation to produce powerful physical and biological effects in the process of energy transfer to achieve insecticidal effect, sterilization, and inhibition of physiological processes. The principle is mainly to destroy the DNA and RNA in microbial cells so that the damaged DNA and RNA are degraded, and the synthetic protein and genetic functions are lost to achieve the effect of killing cells [6]. Chinese medicine is highly susceptible to microbial contamination because of its complex composition. 60Co irradiation sterilization has become more popular in the traditional pharmaceutical industry because it has the characteristics of cold treatment, strong penetration, simple operation, and continuous operation [7]. However, some traditional Chinese medicines have changed their chemical composition after irradiation, such as Gentianae macrophyllae Radix, Gentianae Radix et Rhizoma, Asteris Radix et Rhizoma, Bambusae concretio Silicea and Physalis calyx seu Fructus.
The GC-IMS method is a new technology for detecting volatile organic compounds. Here, the substances are further separated in the IMS drift tube. Analysis of IMS as a detector for GC can achieve two-dimensional separation of volatile organic substances [8]. It has the advantages of GC’s high separation capability and IMS’s fast response, high resolution, and high sensitivity, and the sample requires almost no pretreatment [9]. It is used in the analysis of foods containing volatile components.
In previous studies, the volatile oil of turmeric was extracted by steam distillation and irradiated with 60Co rays of different intensities (dosages of 0, 5, and 10 kGy). The results showed that 97 volatile components were detected in turmeric volatile oil and 64 components were identified by database retrieval. With the change in irradiation intensity, the volatile components in the three turmeric volatile oil samples were similar but there were significant differences in peak intensities. In general, different doses of 60Co irradiation can affect the content of volatile substances in turmeric volatile oil. As the irradiation dose increases, the peak area decreases, so the best irradiation dose is 5 kGy/min.
The essential oil of Curcuma, as its bioactive ingredient, is rich in chemical constituents. However, there are almost no reports in the literature of a study of the chemical constituents of Curcuma essential oil after 60Co radiation by GC-IMS. We describe here for the first time the chemical components of the essential oils of Curcuma by GC-IMS. The purpose of this work is to determine the changes in essential oil composition under different irradiation intensities of 60Co and to select an appropriate irradiation dose using GC-IMS.

2. Results

2.1. GC-IMS Analysis of EOs in Curcuma

The data generated by the instrument constitute a three-dimensional spectrogram (retention time, migration time, and peak intensity), as shown in Figure 1, from which the differences in volatile organic compounds in different samples can be intuitively seen. However, because of the inconvenience of observation, the following top view is taken for comparison of differences.
A two-dimensional top view of the compounds in Curcuma essential oils was generated using the Reporter plug-in, as shown in Figure 2. It consists of drift time, retention time, and ion signal intensity. The background of the whole figure is blue and the red vertical line at the abscissa at 1.0 is the RIP (reactive ion peak, normalized). The ordinate coordinate represents the retention time(s) of gas chromatography and the abscissa represents the ion migration time (normalization process). Each point on either side of the RIP represents a volatile organic compound. The color represents the concentration of the substance; white indicates a lower concentration, red indicates a higher concentration, and a darker color indicates a greater concentration.
We use the Reporter plug-in to obtain a GC-IMS difference plot of the sample, as shown in Figure 3. We use EZ-1 as a reference and the rest of the spectra to subtract the signal peaks in EZ-1 to obtain a difference spectrum of the two. Regions with fewer points indicate that the substance is lower than EZ-1 in this sample and regions with more points indicate that the substance is more than EZ-1 in this sample. Similarly, the darker is the color, the greater is the difference.

2.2. EO Fingerprint Comparison of Samples

To visually and quantitatively compare EO differences between different samples, using the Gallery Plot plug-in, we obtain a Gallery Plot of the sample, as shown in Figure 4. Each row in the figure represents all the signal peaks selected in a sample. Each column in the figure represents the signal peak of the same volatile organic compound in different samples. Some of the substances are followed by _M and _D, which are monomers and dimers of the same substance, and the numbers are unidentified peaks. The complete EO information for each sample and the differences between EOs between samples can be seen from Figure 4.

2.3. PCA of EOs in Samples

PCA is a multivariate data analysis tool for analyzing cubes with quantitative variables [10]. By using several main component factors to represent many other complex and hard-to-find variables in the original sample, we compare the differences between different samples. PCA of Curcuma essential oils was performed, and the results are shown in Figure 5 and Figure 6. It can be seen from the figure that the composition of the essential oil after the treatment of the three methods is not the same, among which EZ-1 and EZ-2 are slightly more similar and EZ-3 is quite different from the other samples.

2.4. Chemical Composition of the EOs

Using the NIST database and IMS database built into VOCal software(Version 0.4.03, GAS Deutschland, Dortmund, Germany) and other plugins (Reporter plugin, Gallery Plot plugin, Dynamic PCA plugin), we can qualitatively analyze the substance. A total of 65 chemical components have been identified from Curcuma essential oils after 60Co irradiation and the composition identification results are shown in Table 1. Because of the higher dimer content of compounds such as 2-decanone, linalool oxide, and beta-pinene, two peaks were present; these correspond to monomers and dimers. As can be seen from Table 1 and Table 2, the main chemical components of Curcuma essential oil include esters, aldehydes, terpenes, alcohols, ketones, and acids.

3. Discussion

This study used GC-IMS to analyze the essential oils of Curcuma under different doses of irradiation. In the obtained three-dimensional, two-dimensional, and differential comparison spectra, it was clearly observed that there were differences in the content of volatile components among the three irradiation dose components. To confirm the conclusion, a PCA differential analysis model was established and the Euclidean distance between samples was calculated to reduce the dimensionality of the data for visualization [11,12]. It can be more intuitively understood that the volatile components of EZ-1 and EZ-2 samples are closer, while EZ-3 samples have significant differences from the other two components when they are far apart, and the three samples between groups are also relatively dispersed; the dosage of 10 kGy has a significant and unstable impact on the volatile component content of the essential oil from Curcuma. Qualitative analysis was conducted on the volatile components in the essential oil of Curcuma and a total of 92 compounds were detected. Among them, 65 compounds were able to be identified and 27 compounds were temporarily unable to be confirmed due to incomplete databases. The confirmed compounds include 11 ketones, 10 aldehydes, 9 esters, 6 terpenoids, and a small amount of acid compounds.
It can be seen from the fingerprint that the contents of furfural, 1-pentanol, E-2-pentenal, 2,3-butanedione, 2-ethylfuran, and other substances are higher in EZ-1. The contents of methyl 2,5-dimethylthiophene, methyl butyrate, 2-pentanone, 2-butanone, 1-butanol, 2-methylbutyral, methyl acetate, 2-propanol, valeraldehyde, and other substances in EZ-2 are higher. The contents of γ-caprolactone, methyl caprate, capric acid, phenylacetaldehyde, (E, E)-2,4-decadienoal, benzaldehyde, 2-furanmethanol, 2-acetylfuran, 2,3-butanediol, 3-hydroxy-2-butanone, acetic acid, acetal, and other substances in EZ-3 are higher. If there are specific requirements for the selection of the content of a certain component, the appropriate irradiation dosage is recommended.
This is somewhat different from the volatile oil of Curcuma detected using GC-MS technology [13,14,15,16]. The possible reason is that more small molecule substances are detected.
Modern pharmacology has shown that Curcuma has anti-tumor effects, anti-inflammatory effects, and anticoagulant effects, as well as improving liver and kidney function [17,18,19,20,21,22,23]. It has very high medicinal value, and most of the component analysis of Curcuma is carried out using GC-MS technology. This study uses GC-IMS technology to analyze the volatile oil of Curcuma, which can better detect substances with lower thresholds, it can provide a more detailed report for the pharmacological study of effective substances in the volatile oil of Curcuma. At the same time, it also provides a certain selection basis for the dosage standard of 60Co radiation sterilization used in the production and storage of traditional Chinese medicinal materials of Curcuma, which has high research significance.
60Co irradiation is a high-energy ray produced by γ-ray ionizing radiation, which is used for efficient and rapid sterilization. The principle is to destroy DNA and RNA in microbial cells, thereby killing cells. The source of traditional Chinese medicine is complex and it is extremely polluted by microorganisms and some harmful pests. When other sterilization methods such as high temperature destroy the ingredients of traditional Chinese medicine, irradiation sterilization becomes a good method, and it is easy to operate and has strong penetrating power. But some traditional Chinese medicines have changed their chemical composition after irradiation, such as Gentianae macrophyllae Radix, Gentianae Radix et Rhizoma, Asteris Radix et Rhizoma, and Physalis calyx seu Fructus. So, the changes in irradiation dose and chemical composition must be paid attention to.

4. Materials and Methods

4.1. Plant Material

Curcuma (the rhizome of Curcuma wenyujin Y. H. Chen et C. Ling) was gathered from Baise, China and identified by Prof. Zhaoming Xie at the Hunan Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine. A voucher specimen (HNATCM2021-012) was deposited in the herbarium of the Hunan Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

4.2. Isolation of the EOs

The sample (50 g) was subjected to hydro-distillation in a Clevenger-type apparatus for 5 h in accordance with the Pharmacopoeia of China (2020). In brief, a sample was added to 300 mL of distilled deionized water in a 1.0 L round-bottomed flask and heated to boiling, after which the essential oil was evaporated together with water vapor and finally collected in a condenser. The essential oil layer was separated, preserved in a sealed sample tube, and then stored in the dark (away from light) at 4 °C for analysis. The yield of extraction was 2.2% (w/w) based on the weight of sample.

4.3. 60Co Irradiation

The resulting Curcuma EOs were dehydrated with anhydrous Na2SO4 and then divided into three equal parts for 60Co irradiation (store in 1.5 mL sealed vials), radiation source intensity 2.96 × 1016 Bq, irradiation method: dynamic stepping. Dose rates were 0, 5, and 10 kGy/min; irradiation time was 6 h. The 60Co γ radiation source (60Co class I radioactive source irradiation equipment, Huangshi, China) was located at Hunan Radiological Technology Application Research Center (Changsha, China).

4.4. GC-IMS Analysis

The GC-IMS analysis was performed using GC coupled with an ion mobility spectrometry instrument (Flavourspec®-G.A.S., Dortmund, Germany). The sample enters the instrument with the carrier gas, first through the initial separation of the gas chromatography column and then into the ion migration tube. After the ionization of the molecule to be measured, under the action of the electric field and the reverse drift gas, it migrates to the Faraday disc for detection to achieve secondary separation.
We take 50 μL of sample, load it into a 20 mL headspace flask, heat the headspace vial at 80 °C for 10 min, and incubate it at 500 rpm. Automatic headspace injection volume is 100 μL and the temperature of the injection needle is 85 °C for headspace injection analysis.
GC conditions: The column is an MXT-5 column (15 m × 0.53 mm × 1 μm), the column temperature is 60 °C, and the carrier gas is N2. The carrier air velocity program is initially 2.0 mL/min, which is held for 2 min, linearly increased to 100.0 mL/min at 2 min to 20 min, and maintained at a flow rate of 100.0 mL/min for 20 min to 40 min. Flow is then stopped for a total running time of 40 min.
IMS conditions: drift gas is N2 and drift gas velocity is 150 mL/min.

4.5. Statistical Analysis

Using the NIST 17 database, we identified compounds in the GC-IMS data by comparing the linear retention indices and mass spectra. The GC-IMS data were examined using the special software including LAV (from G.A.S., Dortmund, Germany version 2.0.0), Reporter, Gallery Plot, and GC-IMS Library Search. Using NIST Library and IMS database retrieval software from G.A.S., we determined the detected EOs by combining the retention index (RI) and drift time (Dt).

5. Conclusions

The experimental results showed that irradiation with 0, 5, and 10 kGy on the volatile oil of Curcuma does not produce new substances, but it can change the content of its volatile substances and the effects on different substances are inconsistent. Using GC-IMS for qualitative analysis of volatile compounds, a total of 92 compounds were detected, most of which were ketones, aldehydes, and esters, and a small portion were furan compounds. GC-IMS detection has more efficient separation ability and sensitive response speed, and can detect small molecule compounds without sample pretreatment, making it more effective for analyzing the differences in volatile components among different samples. By analyzing the GC-IMS fingerprint, PCA, and adjacent Euclidean distance map of the sample, it was found that the volatile matter content of 0 kGy and 5 kGy was closer, and the use of 10 kGy 60Co irradiation would have an unstable effect on the EOs. In summary, it is not advisable to use a higher dose when using 60Co irradiation for sterilization of Curcuma. Due to the small gradient of irradiation dose used in the experiment, the irradiation dose can be adjusted appropriately according to the required sterilization requirements during the production and storage process of Curcuma to obtain the best irradiation conditions. The results indicated that irradiation has a certain effect on the composition of Curcuma EOs; with the increase in irradiation dose, some composition of Curcuma EOs changed. This study provides a sound basis for the use of 60Co-γ ray irradiation sterilization technology during the preparation of medicinal herbs for the effective destruction of mycotoxin contamination.
It shows that irradiation technology has a good application prospect in the sterilization of foods and traditional Chinese medicine containing volatile components, but the changes in irradiation dose and chemical composition must be paid attention to. GC-IMS has the advantages of simple operation, strong separation ability, short detection cycle, and the ability to preserve the original taste of samples to the greatest extent, and can be successfully applied to foods and traditional Chinese medicine.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization, C.L. and J.L.; methodology, C.L. and J.L.; software, W.Z. (Wenchao Zhou); validation, W.Z. (Wei Zhou); formal analysis, C.L. and J.L.; investigation, C.L. and J.L.; resources, W.Z. (Wei Zhou); data curation, W.Z. (Wenchao Zhou); writing—original draft preparation, C.L. and J.L.; writing—review and editing, D.H.; visualization, C.L. and J.L.; supervision, S.L.; project administration, S.L.; funding acquisition, D.H. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

Funding

This research was funded by Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 2019JJ60018), Department of Science and Technology of Hunan Province (No. 2021CB1012) and the First-Class Discipline Project on Chinese Medicine of Hunan University of Chinese Medicine (No. 2018), Department of Science and Technology of Xiangxi Tujiazu & Miaozu Autonomous Prefeture (No. 2022JSGG03) and Department of Science and Technology of Huaihua (No. 2021N2603).

Institutional Review Board Statement

Not applicable.

Informed Consent Statement

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Data Availability Statement

Not applicable.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Sample Availability

Samples of the compounds are not available from the authors.

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Figure 1. A comparison of the GC-IMS 3D spectra.
Figure 1. A comparison of the GC-IMS 3D spectra.
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Figure 2. GC-IMS chromatograms of samples.
Figure 2. GC-IMS chromatograms of samples.
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Figure 3. Difference analysis of GC-IMS of samples.
Figure 3. Difference analysis of GC-IMS of samples.
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Figure 4. Gallery Plot of selected essential oil compounds by GC-IMS.
Figure 4. Gallery Plot of selected essential oil compounds by GC-IMS.
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Figure 5. PCA analysis plot of the sample.
Figure 5. PCA analysis plot of the sample.
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Figure 6. Sample’s nearest neighbor–Euclidean distance map. (The closer the distance, the higher the similarity.)
Figure 6. Sample’s nearest neighbor–Euclidean distance map. (The closer the distance, the higher the similarity.)
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Table
Table 1. Results of component analysis of Curcuma essential oils.
Table 1. Results of component analysis of Curcuma essential oils.
CountCompound NameCASRIMolecular FormulaRt/sDt/ms
(RIPrel)		Comment
1gamma-DecalactoneC7061491598.5C10H18O21209.2281.47454-
2Methyl decanoateC1104291508.0C11H22O21079.391.54878-
3(E,E)-2,4-DecadienalC251528451454.2C10H16O1002.041.42077-
4Decanoic acidC3344851360.2C10H20O2867.2011.57124-
5EugenolC975301341.6C10H12O2840.3931.29711-
62-DecanoneC6935491256.7C10H20O718.5081.48226Monomers
72-DecanoneC6935491255.1C10H20O716.1971.99783Dimers
8alpha-TerpineolC985551206.8C10H18O646.871.22248-
9Diethyl succinateC1232511234.7C8H14O4686.9371.29422-
10CitronellolC1062291197.5C10H20O633.5911.34963-
11LinaloolC787061106.9C10H18O503.4381.2229-
12Ethyl heptanoateC1063091122.5C9H18O2525.8721.9311-
132-NonanoneC8215561091.9C9H18O481.91.88944-
14Linalool oxideC600471781080.6C10H18O2465.661.24616Monomers
15Linalool oxideC600471781081.0C10H18O2466.2451.8138Dimers
161,8-CineoleC4708261027.6C10H18O389.611.73145-
17beta-OcimeneC138779131054.5C10H16428.221.21822-
18BenzeneacetaldehydeC1227811045.1C8H8O414.7651.2491-
19LimoneneC1388631025.6C10H16386.6851.20792-
20alpha-TerpineneC998651015.0C10H16371.4751.22263-
216-Methyl-5-hepten-2-oneC110930990.5C8H14O339.8851.17704-
22beta-PineneC127913976.0C10H16327.61.21969Monomers
23beta-PineneC127913976.0C10H16327.61.64175Dimers
24CampheneC79925944.9C10H16301.2751.21822-
25alpha-PineneC80568931.8C10H16290.161.22116Monomers
26alpha-PineneC80568931.1C10H16289.5751.67557Dimers
272-EthylhexanolC1047671018.3C8H18O376.211.79856-
28Ethyl hexanoateC1236601007.5C8H16O2360.7351.81595-
292-OctanoneC111137999.2C8H16O348.8321.7651-
30BenzaldehydeC100527959.8C7H6O313.9141.15225Monomers
31BenzaldehydeC100527959.4C7H6O313.5171.47206Dimers
32Ethyl pentanoateC539822901.2C7H14O2264.3151.71158-
332-HeptanoneC110430891.6C7H14O256.3791.62862-
342-FuranmethanolC98000873.3C5H6O2246.8561.1188-
352-AcetylfuranC1192627911.1C6H6O2272.6481.45333-
362,5-DimethylthiopheneC638028856.5C6H8S238.1271.07866-
37FurfuralC98011828.3C5H4O2223.4461.08401Monomers
38FurfuralC98011826.7C5H4O2222.6521.3329Dimers
392-Methylbutanoic acidC116530827.5C5H10O2223.0491.46938-
402-HexanolC626937793.1C6H14O205.1931.56974-
412-HexanoneC591786791.9C6H12O204.5461.50912-
422,3-ButanediolC513859778.3C4H10O2198.141.3627-
431-PentanolC71410760.5C5H12O190.9081.25055-
44AcetalC105577748.9C6H14O2186.1550.96913-
45(E)-2-PentenalC1576870747.3C5H8O185.5351.36062-
463-Hydroxy-2-butanoneC513860733.1C4H8O2179.7491.33778-
472,5-DimethylfuranC625865739.9C6H8O182.5031.0218-
48Methyl butanoateC623427716.5C5H10O2172.9931.15331-
49Ethyl propanoateC105373695.4C5H10O2164.3981.44128-
502-PentanoneC107879686.6C5H10O161.1061.37552-
512-EthylfuranC3208160674.9C6H8O157.9981.3211-
522-MethylbutanalC96173663.8C5H10O155.0721.40387-
533-MethylbutanalC590863650.6C5H10O151.5971.4118Dimers
541-ButanolC71363656.2C4H10O153.061.37552-
553-MethylbutanalC590863645.1C5H10O150.1341.20319Monomers
562-ButanoneC78933591.7C4H8O136.0531.24854-
572-Methyl propanalC78842555.1C4H8O126.361.28596-
582-PropanolC67630565.4C3H8O129.1041.22814-
592,3-ButanedioneC431038582.1C4H6O2133.4931.18732-
60Acetic acidC64197565.4C2H4O2129.1041.16918-
612-PropanoneC67641502.4C3H6O112.4621.11816-
62EthanolC64175476.1C2H6O105.5131.12723-
63Methyl acetateC79209550.9C3H6O2125.2631.20319-
64TolueneC108883772.7C7H8195.8521.01046-
65PentanalC110623693.6C5H10O163.6671.18165-
Table
Table 2. Area of Curcuma volatile oil.
Table 2. Area of Curcuma volatile oil.
NoCompoundsMolecular FormulaComment[+] EZ-1[+] EZ-2[+] EZ-3
1gamma-DecalactoneC10H18O2-2912.16 3431.98 3369.21
2Methyl decanoateC11H22O2-3341.36 3892.70 4013.00
3(E,E)-2,4-DecadienalC10H16O-2973.06 3282.99 3434.15
4Decanoic acidC10H20O2-547.35 633.02 734.73
5EugenolC10H12O2-1281.77 1241.07 1233.21
62-DecanoneC10H20OMonomers 6027.45 6303.08 6420.79
72-DecanoneC10H20ODimers5086.61 5864.29 5719.93
8alpha-TerpineolC10H18O-11,283.16 11,913.89 11,295.72
9Diethyl succinateC8H14O4-1309.52 1346.32 1390.25
10CitronellolC10H20O-1096.75 1081.54 1118.81
11LinaloolC10H18O-9174.36 8964.94 9084.55
12Ethyl heptanoateC9H18O2-8358.19 8392.94 8400.00
132-NonanoneC9H18O-17,585.94 17,143.82 17,310.05
14Linalool oxideC10H18O2Monomers 4690.67 4701.49 4740.07
15Linalool oxideC10H18O2Dimers1377.23 1291.99 1354.36
161,8-CineoleC10H18O-12,249.16 12,122.78 12,239.11
17beta-OcimeneC10H16-1694.48 1418.96 1385.90
18BenzeneacetaldehydeC8H8O-907.73 843.63 960.16
19LimoneneC10H16-1129.65 1087.89 1100.73
20alpha-TerpineneC10H16-918.33 753.93 883.22
216-Methyl-5-hepten-2-oneC8H14O-2011.42 1931.01 1962.76
22beta-PineneC10H16Monomers 2522.96 2519.12 2598.67
23beta-PineneC10H16Dimers5057.77 4934.82 4995.13
24CampheneC10H16-2191.88 1963.45 1998.16
25alpha-PineneC10H16Monomers 1366.07 1343.20 1351.68
26alpha-PineneC10H16Dimers3062.82 2762.18 2848.96
272-EthylhexanolC8H18O-570.80 651.25 626.41
28Ethyl hexanoateC8H16O2-6863.47 6978.71 7043.41
292-OctanoneC8H16O-2915.13 2853.83 2942.25
30BenzaldehydeC7H6OMonomers 221.68 219.65 238.90
31BenzaldehydeC7H6ODimers473.44 415.37 483.78
32Ethyl pentanoateC7H14O2-20,873.63 20,994.98 20,390.77
332-HeptanoneC7H14O-7475.55 7083.04 7137.75
342-FuranmethanolC5H6O2-388.76 373.74 385.81
352-AcetylfuranC6H6O2-235.13 147.71 235.75
362,5-DimethylthiopheneC6H8S-373.28 428.12 347.52
37FurfuralC5H4O2Monomers 179.78 171.41 169.89
38FurfuralC5H4O2Dimers301.64 223.43 233.77
392-Methylbutanoic acidC5H10O2-296.69 266.89 276.09
402-HexanolC6H14O-7430.20 7138.66 7364.58
412-HexanoneC6H12O-453.71 389.56 391.78
422,3-ButanediolC4H10O2-847.31 685.55 654.67
431-PentanolC5H12O-120.72 108.34 108.60
44AcetalC6H14O2-113.23 112.71 135.34
45(E)-2-PentenalC5H8O-79.52 61.97 58.52
463-Hydroxy-2-butanoneC4H8O2-467.65 377.73 358.13
472,5-DimethylfuranC6H8O-45.71 46.97 51.40
48Methyl butanoateC5H10O2-74.38 79.05 70.13
49Ethyl propanoateC5H10O2-1540.94 1377.37 1423.45
502-PentanoneC5H10O-113.31 125.79 49.42
512-EthylfuranC6H8O-225.15 186.35 177.51
522-MethylbutanalC5H10O-744.68 675.02 583.69
533-MethylbutanalC5H10ODimers788.51 732.97 689.25
541-ButanolC4H10O-398.41 379.24 285.82
553-MethylbutanalC5H10OMonomers 299.34 222.36 229.26
562-ButanoneC4H8O-253.22 227.04 159.78
572-Methyl propanalC4H8O-161.44 153.49 88.17
582-PropanolC3H8O-1192.77 1087.52 1045.79
592,3-ButanedioneC4H6O2-391.70 358.15 347.32
60Acetic acidC2H4O2-718.70 654.59 652.46
612-PropanoneC3H6O-9466.58 8838.34 8918.75
62EthanolC2H6O-2438.91 2048.25 2256.04
63Methyl acetateC3H6O2-364.86 337.56 295.63
64TolueneC7H8-498.55 426.60 460.66
65PentanalC5H10O-94.88 126.62 106.95
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