ABSTRACT
AIM:To establish a method for determining menthol, methyl salicylate,cinnamal dehyde and engenol simultaneously in Baicao Oil by GC. METHODS: A separation was performed on a large bore capillary column(30m?0.53mm) with PEG-20M as the stationary phase of GC.The method was carried out with FID as the detector without split stream sampling.A programmed temperature was employed.Benzyl alcohol was selected as the internal standard substance. RESULTS: An excellent seperation of menthol,methyl salicylate,cinnamal and engenol in Baicao Oil was gained.The good linear relationships of menthol (62.7?10~3-2.01?10~3 ?g/mL),methyl salicylate (119?10~3-3.81?10~3 ?g/mL),cinnamal dehyde (0.42-205 ?g/mL),engenol (19.9-636 ?g/mL) were observed.All correlation coefficients were greater than (0.999 2).The average recovery of menthol,methyl salicylate,cinnamal and engenol were between(98.6%)～100.3%,and RSD was less than 2.4%. CONCLUSION: The method is simple,accurate and suitable for quality control of Baicao Oil.