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Lavender lactone and other volatile constituents of the oleoresin from seeds of Garcinia kola Heckel
Author(s) -
Onayade O. A.,
Looman A. M. G.,
Scheffer J. J. C.,
Gbile Z. O.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
flavour and fragrance journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.393
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1099-1026
pISSN - 0882-5734
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1099-1026(199811/12)13:6<409::aid-ffj771>3.0.co;2-n
Subject(s) - oleoresin , chemistry , farnesol , lavender , lactone , garcinia kola , chromatography , terpenoid , botany , traditional medicine , organic chemistry , essential oil , stereochemistry , medicine , biology
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. Copyright © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.