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Volatile constituents from flowers, leaves, bark and wood of Prunus mahaleb L.
Author(s) -
Mastelić Josip,
Jerković Igor,
Mesić Milan
Publication year - 2006
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/ffj.1596
Subject(s) - chemistry , bark (sound) , terpene , phytol , terpenoid , rosaceae , botany , linoleic acid , steam distillation , campesterol , organic chemistry , sterol , fatty acid , distillation , stereochemistry , biology , biochemistry , physics , cholesterol , acoustics
Abstract Volatile constituents from air‐dried flowers, leaves, stem‐bark and wood of Prunus mahaleb L. (Rosaceae) were isolated by steam‐distillation and analysed using GC and GC–MS; 130 components were identified. Aliphatic hydrocarbons, alcohols, carbonyls, fatty acids, terpenes, C 13 ‐norisoprenoids and phenylpropane derivatives were detected. Coumarin was identified as the main component of the bark volatiles (34.1%). Hexadecanoic acid was the main component in the wood (46.0%), and was also present in the leaves (17.8%) and bark (9.3%). n ‐Alkanes, heneicosane (22.1%) and octacosane (13.0%) were identified as the main components in the flowers, while eicosane was detected in the wood (12.9%). Phytol was identified in the leaves (5.1%). Dodecanoic, tetradecanoic and linoleic acids were present in all samples among the major components. The contents of volatile compounds were 340.0 mg/kg (flowers), 64.6 mg/kg (leaves), 41.0 mg/kg (bark) and 6.6 mg/kg (wood). Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.