Lavender lactone and other volatile constituents of the oleoresin from seeds of Garcinia kola Heckel
✍ Scribed by O. A. Onayade; A. M. G. Looman; J. J. C. Scheffer; Z. O. Gbile
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 97 KB
- Volume
- 13
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0882-5734
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✦ Synopsis
The composition of the volatiles isolated by distillation-extraction from an oleoresin from a commercial sample of seeds of Garcinia kola Heckel grown in Nigeria was analysed by means of GLC, LSC and GC±MS. The volatiles consisted mainly of monoterpenes and degradation products thereof (56%), sesquiterpenes (17%) and diterpenes (5%); hydrocarbons were less than 5%. The major components of the mixture of volatiles were 6-methylhept-5-en-2-one (16%), (E,E)-farnesol (14%), 5-ethenyldihydro-5-methylfuran-2-one ( lavender lactone, 12%) and linalol (11%). Neither GC nor GC±MS analyses of the oleoresin or volatiles of G. kola have previously been reported.