Aromatic Plants of Tropical Central Africa. XV. Chemical Composition of the Essential Oil ofAchyrospermum africanumHook. from Cameroon
- 1 July 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Essential Oil Research
- Vol. 6 (4) , 423-424
- https://doi.org/10.1080/10412905.1994.9698414
Abstract
The hydrodistilled essential oil of Achyrospermum africanum Hook. from Cameroon was analyzed by capillary GC and GC/MS. Thirty-one components representing 95.8% of the oil were characterized. The major constituents of the oil were found to be α-cubebene (34.2%), α-santalene (9.1%) and 3-octanol (15.6%).Keywords
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