Year: 1981
Type: article
Abstract: Antifungal activities were examined and compared for some 40 kinds of aliphatic and aromatic aldehydes, alcohols, phenolic compounds, ether compoundsand hydrocarbons from essential oils and for some related compounds, using seven fungi.Considerable studies on antimicrobial activities of essential oils and their components have been reported.1~12) However, systematic investigations using many kinds of components of essential oils have yet been very limited.Thus, in the present studies, we examined the antifungal activity of about '40 kinds of compounds from essential oils and several related compounds, using 7 fungi.Furthermore, the relationship between antifungal activity and molecular orbital energy was discussed for carbonyl compounds. MATERIALS AND METHODSReagents.Caryophyllene and perillalcohol were kindly supplied by Mr. Takashi Yasuda of Takasago Perfumery Co., Ltd.All of the other compoundsemployed here were of commercial source.Fungi.The fungi employed for assays of antifungal activity were listed in Table I.These fungi, after isolated from clinical specimens, had been maintained on Sabouraud dextrose agar slants at room temperature at the Research Institute for Chemobiodynamics, Chiba University.
Authors: Nobuyuki Kurita, Makoto Miyaji, Ryuichiro Kurane, Yoshimasa Takahara
Institution: Chiba University
Language: English
Subfield: Food Science
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2071961653