Author(s)

Hamiani Abdelkader, Kambouche Nadia, Bellahouel Salima

Organic Synthesis Laboratory, Chemistry Department, Faculty of Exact Sciences and Applied, Oran 1 Ahmed Benbella University, Oran, Algeria.

Essential oil from the leaves of Pistacia lentiscus L. growing in the Oran region in the west of Algeria was obtained by hydrodistillation with a 1.26 % yield on a dry weight basis. Spectrophotometric analyses were employed to highlight the scavenger capacity of this oil using the 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) test. Twenty compounds were identified by GC and CG/MS analyses, and the main part of the compounds of the oil was terpinene-4-ol (41.24%) and α-terpineol (7.31%), α-pinene (9.48%), limonene (09.11%), β-myrcene (10.5%), p-cymene (8.67%) and α-phellandrene (2.20%), β-caryophyllene (12.62%) as major compounds. The DPPH test shows that Pistacia lentiscus essential oil possesses antiradical activity. A linear correlation (correlation coefficient R² = 0.995, P < 0.001) was found between the reduction of DPPH stable free radical and the concentration of Pistacia lentiscus essential oil.

Pistacia lentiscus, Terpinene-4-ol, Essential Oil, Antioxidant Activity

Abdelkader, H. , Nadia, K. and Salima, B. (2016) Chemical Composition and Antioxidant Potential of Pistacia lentiscus L. Essential Oil from Oran (Algeria). Advances in Bioscience and Biotechnology, 7, 539-544. doi: 10.4236/abb.2016.712048.