Nepetalactones as chemotaxonomic markers in the essential oils of Nepeta species

0009-3130/11/4705-0843 2011 Springer Science+Business Media, Inc. 1) Medicinal & Natural Product Chemistry Research Centre, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran, P. O. Box: 71345-1149, fax: 98711 233 22 25, e-mail: javidniak@sums.ac.ir; 2) Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran; 3) Department of Chemistry, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran; 4) Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran. Published in Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 5, pp. 736–739, September–October, 2011. Original article submitted May 20, 2010. Chemistry of Natural Compounds, Vol. 47, No. 5, November, 2011 [Russian original No. 5, September–October, 2011]