Volatile constituents of the fruit and leaf oils of Thuja orientalis L. grown in Iran.

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  • Bahman Nickavar
  • Gholamreza Amin
  • Sara Parhami
چکیده

The composition of the hydrodistilled essential oils from the fruits and leaves of Thuja orientalis L. grown in Iran was analyzed by GC/MS. Nineteen and twenty-eight compounds have been identified in the volatile oils of the fruit and leaf, respectively. While the fruit oil contained alpha-pinene (52.4%), delta-3-carene (14.2%), alpha-cedrol (6.5%) and beta-phellandrene (5.1%), the leaf oil contained alpha-pinene (21.9%), alpha-cedrol (20.3%), delta-3-carene (10.5%) and limonen (7.2%) as the main components.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Zeitschrift fur Naturforschung. C, Journal of biosciences

دوره 58 3-4  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2003