Chemical Composition and Cytotoxic and Antioxidant Activities of Satureja montana L. Essential Oil and Its Antibacterial Potential against Salmonella Spp. Strains

Table 1

Mean percentage of the Satureja montana L. (France) essential oil components and RI comparison according to the literature.

Peak number	Compound^a	Percentage	Retention index (RI)
			Calculated^b	Literature (reference)
1	α-Thujene	1.14	927	927 (Mimica-Dukic et al., 2003)	[33]
2	α-Pinene	0.73	934	934 (Basta et al., 2007)	[34]
3	Camphene	0.31	949	949 (Baranauskiene et al., 2003)	[35]
4	β-Pinene	0.15	978	979 (Hajlaoui et al., 2010)	[36]
5	1-Octen-3-ol	0.86	981	980 (Forero et al., 2009)	[37]
6	𝛽-Myrcene	1.3	992	992 (Hazzit et al., 2006)	[38]
7	𝛼-Phellandrene	0.22	1006	1006 (Wannes et al., 2009)	[39]
8	𝛼-Terpinene	1.76	1018	1020 (Yu et al., 2007)	[40]
9	p-Cymene	13.03	1027	1027 (Roussis et al., 2000)	[41]
10	Limonene	0.73	1030	1030 (Harzallah-Skhiri et al., 2006)	[42]
11	Eucalyptol	0.42	1033	1033 (Juliani et al., 2004)	[43]
12	Trans-𝛽-ocimene	0.29	1039	1039 (Jalali-Heravi et al., 2006)	[44]
13	𝛾-Terpinene	13.54	1060	1061 (Hajlaoui et al., 2010)	[36]
14	Trans-sabinene hydrate	0.87	1070	1070 (Ogunwande et al., 2010)	[45]
15	Linalool	1.81	1101	1101 (Zhao et al., 2005)	[46]
16	Borneol	1.14	1170	1167 (Singh et al., 2006)	[47]
17	Terpinen-4-ol	0.5	1181	1181 (Mehrabani et al., 2004)	[48]
18	𝛼-Terpineol	0.13	1194	1194 (Sajjadi and Ghannadi, 2005)	[49]
19	Linalyl acetate	0.19	1255	1255 (Afsharypuor and Jahromy, 2003)	[50]
20	Thymol	0.89	1298	1298 (Ghannadi et al., 2004)	[51]
21	Carvacrol	53.35	1309	1311 (Saroglou et al., 2006)	[52]
22	Carvacrol acetate	0.19	1374	1377 (Zouari et al., 2007)	[53]
23	𝛽-Bourbonene	0.15	1390	1391 (Baranauskiene et al., 2003)	[35]
24	𝛽-Caryophyllene	2.23	1426	1426 (Zhao et al., 2005)	[46]
25	α-Amorphene	0.3	1482	1494 (Jalali-Heravi et al., 2006)	[44]
26	Germacrene-D	0.52	1488	1488 (Novak et al., 2005)	[54]
27	𝛽-Patchoulene	0.49	1502	1503 (Pripdeevech et al., 2010)	[55]
28	𝛽-Bisabolene	1.3	1511	1511 (Asuming et al., 2005)	[56]
29	𝛾-Cadinene	0.25	1521	1521 (Zouari et al., 2011)	[57]
30	𝛿-Cadinene	0.48	1529	1528 (Zouari et al., 2011)	[57]
31	Spathulenol	0.15	1588	1590 (Mehrabani et al., 2004)	[48]
32	Caryophyllene oxide	0.43	1594	1594 (Zouari et al., 2011)	[57]
Total identified		99.85
Yield (g/100 g dry weight)		1.56
Grouped components (%)
Monoterpene hydrocarbons		33.2
Oxygenated monoterpenes		59.11
Sesquiterpene hydrocarbons		5.72
Oxygenated sesquiterpenes		0.58
Others		1.24

aCompounds are listed in order of their elution from the HP-5MS column.
^bRetention index calculated against C₈–C₂₆ n-alkanes mixture on HP-5MS column.