Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• M. Mirza
• Z. Baher Nik

Academic Member of Research Institute of Forests & Rangelands, Tehran-Iran

Abstract

Evonymus japonicus belongs to Celasteraceae family and cultivated in the different parts of the world. Aroma of flowers is very hectic and the plant is a host of the sugar beet fly. In order to study the volatile constituents, its flowers were collected in June, extracted by solvent (hexane) and examined by GC/MS. Twenty compounds identified representing about 95.2 % of the extract. It was dominated by 46.6% alcohol. The major components of flowers extract were phenylethyl alcohol (29.4%), benzyl butanoate (28.6 %) and benzyl alcohol (11.1%).
Other main components were phenylethyl propinate (8.5%), eugenol (4.8%), nonalal (2.9%) and 1, 3, 5-trimethoxy benzene (2.7%).

Keywords

• Evonymus japonicus
• hexane extract
• phenylethyl alcohol
• benzyl butanoate
• benzyl alcohol