Baccharis dracunculifolia

Reports on the sesquiterpene composition of Baccharis genus are recorded in the literature. From some representatives of this genus growing in Texas and Mexico, sesquiterpene hydrocarbons, such as germacrane D and caryophyllenepoxide were isolated [34], From Baccharis dracunculifolia D. C. sesquiterpene hydrocarbons like germacrane D, 8-cadinene,... 

C15H22O M 218.338 Constit. of Brazilian vassoura oil (Baccharis dracunculifolia). 

Klopell FC, Lemos M, Sousa JP, Cinnunello E, Maistro EL, Bastos JK, de Andrade SF (2007) Nerolidol, an antiulcer ccnistituem from the essential oil of Baccharis dracunculifolia DC (Asteraceae). Z Naturforsch C 62(7-8) 537-542... 

More recently, Frizzo et al. [69] examined the essential oil from Baccharis uncinella D. C., popularly called Vassoura lageana , which grows wild in the South of Brazil. No previous phytochemical studies have been reported concerning the composition of volatile compounds from this Baccharis species. The monoterpene profile is similar to those reported for other Baccharis, such as B. dracunculifolia and B. crispa, while the sesquiterpene... 

In the genus Baccharis there are only reports of simple phenolic derivatives in B. dracunculifolia, an indigenous species throughout the Southeast parts of Latin America, which yielded ten new phenolic glycosides named dracunculifosides A-J, Fig. (51) [75,76],... 

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