Research Article

Determination of Volatile Organic Compounds in Selected Strains of Cyanobacteria

Table 1

Volatile organic compounds as relative % of chromatographic peak abundance in total ion chromatograms in the investigated cyanobacterial samples.

CompoundRIS1S22S7B+N2S7B−N2S9B+N2S9B−NC2+NC2−NC5+NC5−N

2-Pentylfuran (I)*9920.805.253.696.051.271.171.818.568.980.72
2-Ethyl-1-hexanol (II)9950.77n.d.0.515.590.985.56n.d.n.d.n.d.n.d.
2,2,6-Trimethylcyclohexanone (III)1086n.d.n.d.n.d.n.d.n.d.n.d.0.734.990.290.90
1,1,3-Trimethyl-2-cyclohexanone (IV)1096n.d.0.77n.d.n.d.n.d.n.d.n.d.n.d.n.d.n.d.
2,6-Dimethylcyclohexanol (V)10302.162.663.954.241.691.921.243.063.480.61
-Cyclocitral (VI)12040.201.090.431.170.250.500.331.34n.d.n.d.
2-Methylisoborneol (VII)12620.901.060.802.880.514.420.944.481.772.18
Tetradecane (VIII)14130.140.39n.d.n.d.n.d.n.d.n.d.n.d.n.d.n.d.
-Ionone (IX)14571.421.751.962.471.751.471.152.721.721.20
Pentadecane (X)15124.158.810.830.680.220.740.520.840.630.44
Diisobutyric acid 1-tert-butyl-2-methyl-1,3-propanediyl ester (XI)15600.90n.d.0.672.450.610.68n.d.n.d.n.d.n.d.
Hexadecane (XII)16125.454.791.291.071.351.551.111.341.460.90
6,9-Heptadecadiene (XIII)17270.900.33n.d.n.d.n.d.n.d.n.d.n.d.n.d.n.d.
8-Heptadecene (XIV)1719n.d.n.d.n.d.n.d.29.3830.870.450.0054.2956.72
Heptadecane (XV)171182.2173.1243.4945.1959.8144.5164.8264.6527.3936.32
8-Methylheptadecane (XVI)1746n.d.n.d.42.3728.21n.d.n.d.26.918.01n.d.n.d.
3-Octadecene (XVII)1818n.d.n.d.n.d.n.d.2.186.60n.d.n.d.n.d.n.d.

Roman numerals in brackets are assigned for the purpose of simplification of PCA analysis maps.
n.d.: not detected.
RI: retention index; S1 and S2: samples of Spirulina platensis; 2S7B and 2S9B: samples of Nostoc spp. (+N and −N stands for with and without added nitrogen to the medium); C2 and C5: samples of Anabaena spp. (+N and −N stands for with and without added nitrogen to the medium).