Publications

Chibani S, Bensouici C, Kabouche A, Aburjai T, Touzani R, Kabouche Z. Analysis of the Essential Oil of Aerial Parts of Ferula luteaPoiret from Algeria. Journal of Essential Oil Bearing Plants. 2012;15 (4) :682-685.Abstract

The essential oil obtained by hydrodistillation of fresh aerial parts of Ferula lutea Poiret (Apiaceae) was analyzed by GC and GC-MS. Twenty one compounds were characterized representing 84.9 % of the essential oil with the prevalence of 2,3,6-trimethylbenzene (25.0 %), cis-chrysanthenol (20.8 %), α-pinene (10.9 %) and thymol (10.2 %).

Chibani S, Bensouici C, Kabouche Z, Kabouche A, Al-Dabbas M-M, Aburjai T. Flavonoids and antioxidant activity of Santolina rosmarinifolia from Algeria. Chemistry of Natural Compounds. 2012;48 (5) :779–780.Abstract

Santolina is a small genus of the large subfamily Asteraceae of the family Compositae. Species of this genus are used in folk medicine as anthelmintic, antispasmodic, and antifectious agent [1]. Sesquiterpene lactones and volatile terpenes have been isolated from the Spanish subspecies S. rosmarinifolia subsp. canescens, S. rosmarinifolia subsp. rosmarinifolia, and S. chamaecyparissus [2345]. Terpenes and acetylene derivatives were reported from the roots of S. corsica [6], but no flavonoids have been reported from these two subspecies. The Algerian species S. rosmarinifolia L. [7] has not been the subject of any phytochemical study. It will be interesting to investigate the presence of 6-methoxyflavones previously reported from S. chamaecyparissus [89].

The aerial parts of S. rosmarinifolia were collected on may 2008 in the region of Batna (North Eastern Algerian) [7]. The voucher specimen was identified by Prof. Gerard De Belair (University Badji-Mokhtar, Annaba) and was...

Boudiar T, Bensouici C, Safaei-Ghomi J, Kabouche A, Kabouche Z. GC- MS Analysis of Ammoides atlantica (Coss. et Dur.) Wolf. from Algeria. Journal of essential oil - bearing plants. 2011;14 (4) :481-483.Abstract

The essential oil of fresh aerial part of Ammoides atlantica Coss. et Dur. (Apiaceae), obtained by hydrodistillation in a Clevenger-type apparatus, was analyzed by GC-MS. Twenty compounds were characterized representing 97.9 % of the essential oil with safranal (17.9 %), endo-borneol (17.6 %), chrysanthenone (15.5 %), filifolone (12.1 %) and camphor (11.8 %) as main components.

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