Chemical Composition of the Essential oil of Satureja bachtiarica Bunge. from Iran

Due to various usages of Satureja species or their oils, we were interested in studying essential oil contents and compositions of Saturejaspecies in Iran. So, the essential oil of aerial parts of Saturejabachtiarica Bunge. growing in Iran was obtained by hydrodistillation and was analyzed by GC-MS. Twenty eight compounds constituting 99.80% of the oil were identified and yield of the oil was 2.7% (V/W). The major components were found to be thymol (65.1%), γ-terpinene (15.0%), βcaryophyllene (4.85%), p-cymene (4.4%), linalool (3.5%) and borneol (3.05%).