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QUIMICA NOVA
Volume 31, Issue 6, Pages 1476-1480Publisher
SOC BRASILEIRA QUIMICA
DOI: 10.1590/S0100-40422008000600037
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essential oil; Cymbopogan citratus; degradation
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The identification of the chemical compounds of the essential oil was performed with a gas chromatograph coupled to a mass spectrometer. The oil was left in the presence and absence of light and submitted to different temperatures to evaluate its stability. The yields of the major compounds were evaluated every fifteen days. Citral and myrcene, the major compounds of the essential oil, were degraded over time in both the presence and absence of light, but temperature only influenced the degradation of myrcene.
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