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Volume 1, Issue 4, September 2013

  • Essential Oil Constituents of Desmos Cochinchinensis Lour, and Polyalthia Longifolia var. Pendula Hort from Vietnam

    Tran Dinh Thang, Do Ngoc Dai, Tran Minh Hoi, Isiaka A. Ogunwande

    Issue: Volume 1, Issue 4, September 2013
    Pages: 45-49
    Received: 14 December 2012
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    Published: 20 October 2013
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    Abstract: The essential oils obtained by hydrodistillation from two Annonaceace plants from Vietnam were analysed by gas chromatography (GC) coupled with mass spectrometry (GC/MS). The main conpounds identified in bark oil of Polyalthia longifolia var. pendula Hort were zingiberene (26.7%), β-caryophyllene (11.1%) and β-bisabolene (7.9%). The major compounds... Show More