Aromatic Plants of Tropical Central Africa. XXI. Chemical Composition of Bark Essential Oil ofGuarea cedrata(A. Chev.) Pellegr. from Central African Republic

1 March 1995

journal article
research article
Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Essential Oil Research

Vol. 7 (2) , 207-209
https://doi.org/10.1080/10412905.1995.9698502

Abstract

The hydrodistillated essential oil of Guarea cedrata (A. Chev.) Pellegr. bark was analyzed by capillary GC and GC/MS. It was found that the oil consisted exclusively of sesquiterpenes, representing 97.1% volatiles, among which 68.0% were hydrocarbons and 29.1% were oxygenated components. The major constituents were found to be β-caryophyllene (45.1%) and globulol (11.1%).

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