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Original Articles

Composition of the Essential Oils and Volatile Fractions of Artemisia absinthium by Three Different Extraction Methods: Hydrodistillation, Solvent-Free Microwave Extraction and Headspace Solid-Phase Microextraction Combined with a Novel QSRR Evaluation

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Pages 1561-1581 | Received 10 Oct 2014, Accepted 27 Aug 2015, Published online: 14 Dec 2016

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