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Isolation of new constituents with a formyl group from the heartwood of Santalum album L.
Author(s) -
Hasegawa Toshio,
Toriyama Takeshi,
Ohshima Naoki,
Tajima Yuji,
Mimura Ikuyo,
Hirota Kazuki,
Nagasaki Yuya,
Yamada Hideo
Publication year - 2011
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.2020
Subject(s) - sandalwood , santalum album , chemistry , essential oil , fraction (chemistry) , incense , hexane , organic chemistry , terpenoid , terpene , chromatography , traditional medicine , stereochemistry , botany , medicine , philosophy , theology , biology
Sandalwood ( Santalum album L.) is a traditional incense, and its essential oil is used in fragrances. The hexane extract from Indian sandalwood chips had a sandalwood odour similar to sandalwood chips, but it clearly differed from that of commercial essential oil. By fractional distillation of the extract under reduced pressure, a fraction was obtained that had a sandalwood‐like odour and contained several unknown formyl compounds as the main constituents. Santalyl formates were isolated as new components from this fraction by chromatography and characterized by 1 H‐ and 13 C‐NMR spectroscopy. These constituents were less abundant in the commercial essential oil than in the hexane extract. Santalyl formates were synthesized from the corresponding alcohols.