Identification of
compounds was performed
by GC-MS using a 7890B gas chromatogram interfaced with a 5977B mass
spectrometer (Agilent, Santa Clara, CA) coupled to a GERSTEL multipurpose
sampler (MPS) (GERSTEL, Linthicum, MD). The column used was a DB-5MS
UI (30 m, 0.25 mm I.D., 0.25 μm) (Agilent, Santa Clara, CA).
The oven had an initial temperature of 150 °C that was increased
at a rate of 4 °C/min until reaching 300 °C. The inlet temperature
was 300 °C, the helium flow rate was 1 mL/min, and 1 μL
of the sample was injected. The mass spectrometer parameters were
as follows: the ionization mode was electron ionization (EI), and
the ion source temperature was 230 °C. For the methanol extract
samples, 1 mL of solution was transferred to a
GC vial (Agilent, Santa
Clara, CA). A split of 1:5 was used, the
m/
z range was 50–500, and the solvent delay was 8 min.
For the alkaloid extract samples, the residue was resuspended in
chloroform(Sigma-Aldrich, St. Louis, MO), filtered, and transferred to a GC
vial. A split of 1:10 was used, the
m/
z range was 50–600, and the solvent delay was 3.5 min. Data
processing, which included automatic and manual peak integration,
was performed using
MassHunter Qualitative Analysis Software (Agilent,
Santa Clara, CA).
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