Volatile constituents of the fruit and leaf oils of Thuja orientalis L. grown in Iran.
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.
Nickavar
Bahman
B
Pharmacognosy Department, School of Pharmacy, Shaheed Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. bnickavar@yahoo.com
Amin
Gholamreza
G
Parhami
Sara
S
D008401:Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry; D007492:Iran; D009822:Oils, Volatile / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D012639:Seeds / Q000737:chemistry; D029783:Thuja / Q000737:chemistry*
D009822:Oils, Volatile