In continuation of our scientific work in the field of combined and sytematical investigation of antimicrobial activities (by means of agar dilution and agar diffusion methods) and structural properties (using gas chromatographic analyses: GC and GC/MS with chiral and achiral columns) of different aroma compounds in various samples (pure chemicals, essential oils, extracts, etc.), further odor-active hydrocarbons (2-carene, 3-carene, limonene and β-caryophyllene) and oxygenated mono- and sesquiterpenes (1,8-cineole, linalool, carvone, camphor and linalyl acetate as well as santalol) were used. Only in the case of (+)-3-carene, (+)-carvone, (-)-linalool and racemic linalool antimicrobial activities were found against all used strains (Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Klebsielle pneumonia and Candida albicans). Detailed results of both, antimicrobial activities and structural properties of the investigated aroma compounds will be presented in this paper.
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Schmidt et al. (2005) studied this question.