Table 1 GC/MS analysis of essential oil of anethole-rich C. heptaphylla essential oil (ARCHEO).

From: Anethole rich Clausena heptaphylla (Roxb.) Wight & Arn., essential oil pharmacology and genotoxic efficiencies

Sl. no.

Name of the compound

RT

Area %

KI*

KI**

Identification method

1

Estragole

10.68

5.36

1196

1198

1,2,3

2

cis-Anethole

11.65

0.80

1254

1256

1,2,3

3

trans-Anethole

12.24

88.59

1284

1285

1,2,3

4

p-Acetonylanisole

13.88

0.07

1384

1385

1,2

5

Caryophyllene

14.57

0.04

1419

1420

1,2,3

6

trans-Ethyl cinnamate

15.18

0.46

1463

1465

1,2,3

7

Benzene, 1,2-dimethoxy-4-(1-propenyl Isoeugenolmethyl ether

15.64

0.10

1492

1492

1,2

8

Bicyclogermacrene

15.77

0.30

1495

1496

1,2

9

Cubebol

16.13

0.03

1515

1518

1,2

10

Ethyl p-methoxycinnamate

19.39

4.03

1773

1774

1,2,3

Total = 100%, Identified compounds = 99.78%, Unidentified compounds = 0.22%

Ether (Sl No. 1–3, 7) = 94.85%

Acetophenones (Sl No. 4) = 0.07%

Sesquiterpene hydrocarbons (Sl No. 5, 8) = 0.34%

Oxygenated sesquiterpene (Sl No. 9) = 0.03%

Cinnamic acid esters (Sl No. 6, 10) = 4.49%

  1. KI* Kovats Index Literature15, KI** Kovats Index Experimental, 1. Comparison of retention indices with literatures, 2. Comparison of the mass spectra with the mass libraries, 3. Comparing retention time with standards injected with same GC condition.
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