Journal of Chemistry / 2015 / Article / Tab 1 / 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.
Compound RI S1 S2 2S7B+N 2S7B−N 2S9B+N 2S9B−N C2+N C2−N C5+N C5−N 2-Pentylfuran (I)* 992 0.80 5.25 3.69 6.05 1.27 1.17 1.81 8.56 8.98 0.72 2-Ethyl-1-hexanol (II) 995 0.77 n.d. 0.51 5.59 0.98 5.56 n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. 2,2,6-Trimethylcyclohexanone (III) 1086 n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. 0.73 4.99 0.29 0.90 1,1,3-Trimethyl-2-cyclohexanone (IV) 1096 n.d. 0.77 n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. 2,6-Dimethylcyclohexanol (V) 1030 2.16 2.66 3.95 4.24 1.69 1.92 1.24 3.06 3.48 0.61 -Cyclocitral (VI)1204 0.20 1.09 0.43 1.17 0.25 0.50 0.33 1.34 n.d. n.d. 2-Methylisoborneol (VII) 1262 0.90 1.06 0.80 2.88 0.51 4.42 0.94 4.48 1.77 2.18 Tetradecane (VIII) 1413 0.14 0.39 n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. -Ionone (IX)1457 1.42 1.75 1.96 2.47 1.75 1.47 1.15 2.72 1.72 1.20 Pentadecane (X) 1512 4.15 8.81 0.83 0.68 0.22 0.74 0.52 0.84 0.63 0.44
Diisobutyric acid 1-tert-butyl-2-methyl-1,3-propanediyl ester (XI) 1560 0.90 n.d. 0.67 2.45 0.61 0.68 n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. Hexadecane (XII) 1612 5.45 4.79 1.29 1.07 1.35 1.55 1.11 1.34 1.46 0.90 6,9-Heptadecadiene (XIII) 1727 0.90 0.33 n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. 8-Heptadecene (XIV) 1719 n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. 29.38 30.87 0.45 0.00 54.29 56.72 Heptadecane (XV) 1711 82.21 73.12 43.49 45.19 59.81 44.51 64.82 64.65 27.39 36.32 8-Methylheptadecane (XVI) 1746 n.d. n.d. 42.37 28.21 n.d. n.d. 26.91 8.01 n.d. n.d. 3-Octadecene (XVII) 1818 n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. 2.18 6.60 n.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).