GCMS study of petroleum spirit fraction of Leucas hyssopifolia Benth.

Department of Chemistry, Kumaon University, Nainital-263 002, India

Manuscript received 22 May 1998, revised 19 April 1999, accepted 17 May 1999

Fourteen aliphatic long-chain hydrocarbons from heptadecane to hexacosane and nine aliphatic ethyl esters ethyl tetradecanoate to ethyl heneicosanoate, have been isolated and identified by GC-MS study in petroleum spirit fraction of Leucas hyssopifolia.