Fresh aerial parts of Angelica glauca, growing wild in Kashmir valley in higher Himalaya (Jammu and Kashmir, India), collected at flowering stage from different locations, on hydro-distillation provided a refreshing light pale coloured essential oil with characteristic floral woody flavour. The oil was found to be a complex mixture of mono- and sesquiterpenes and 34 compounds accounting for nea...

GC-MS analysis of the essential oils from aerial parts of Thymus migricus Klokov & Des.-Shost, Thymus fallax Fisch. & Mey. and Thymus pubescens Boiss. & Kotschy ex Celak var. pubescens resulted in the identification of 26, 35 and 53 constituents, respectively. The major components in the essential oil of T. migricus were found to be α-terpineol (30.6%), thymol (20.7%) and α-terpinyl acetate (14...

The Pleistocene and recent distributions of the taxa are discussed. A new variety of Juniperus ashei, J. ashei Buch. var. ovata R. P. Adams is recognized from west Texas and northern Mexico. It differs from typical J. ashei in having whip leaf glands that are oval to elongate rather than hemispherical, smaller female cones, smaller seeds and more seeds per cone. In addition, the leaf oil of var...

Scale-up of oxygenase catalyzed reactions is often challenging due to the limited oxygen mass transfer in aqueous solutions. To overcome such limitation, we studied different scale-up conditions using recombinant resting cells E. coli JM109(DE3), harboring cumene dioxygenase Pseudomonas fluorescens IP01, for dihydroxylation naphthalene (1R,2S)-cis-1,2-dihydro-1,2-naphthalenediol. Thereby, vigor...

Hierarchical beta zeolites obtained in the concentrated reaction mixtures (H2O/Si = 2.5) and micromesoporous materials synthesized using a dual-template approach from zeolite precursor were rigorously characterized tested sustainable environmentally friendly process of α-pinene oxide isomerization. The highest yield trans-carveol (42%) with chemopreventive activity mammary carcinogenesis was ac...