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Composition of the essential oil of Schinus latifolius engl.

✍ Scribed by José G. Barroso; Luis G. Pedro; M. Salomé S. Pais; Johannes J. C. Scheffer

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1991
Tongue
English
Weight
194 KB
Volume
6
Category
Article
ISSN
0882-5734

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✦ Synopsis

The essential oil isolated by hydrodistillation from leaves of Schinus latifolius Engl. was analysed by G C and GC-MS. Forty-eight components of the oil were identified with certainty; they represented 96% of the oil which contained mainly monoterpenes; B-pinene (3573, sabinene (24%) and a-pinene (21%) being the major constituents. Sesquiterpenes, which were all found in a concentration lower than l%, constituted 6.5% of the oil; the oxygen-containing components of these, all alcohols, amounted to 4.8%. Phytochemical studies on the oil have not been reported previously.

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