In collaboration with Scientific Association of Iranian Medicinal Plants

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Research Institute of Forest and Ranglands, P.O.Box 13185, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

The chemical constituents of the oil from Taxodium distichum (L.) were collected in mide of summer , essential oils were extracted from fruit by hydrodistillation method ( clevenger – type apparatus ) which apparatus planed to take oil in runing time without stoping of process. In this extraction we collected three fraction and then oils analyzed by GC  and GC/MS . The major constituents in fraction – 1 were  a - pinene (61.8%)  which decrease in fraction – 2 (57.1%) and in fraction – 3 (14.8%) , and another compound 1- terpineol  in fraction – 1  were (31.5%) and in fraction – 2 increased (32.5%) but in fraction – 3 again decreased (24%) and for  b - caryophyllene in fraction – 1 with (1.2%)  in fraction – 2 are increased (7.2%) and in fraction – 3   again increased  (24.6%) . 

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