Chemical composition of the leaf essential oil of Casimiroa edulis La Llave & Lex. (Rutaceae) from Monteverde, Costa Rica

Natural Product Communications

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 425-426

  Miller, Sarah L ^a   Haber, William A ^b,c   Setzer, William N ^a  

^a University of Alabama in Huntsville ^*  (United States)

^b MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN   (United States)

^c NONE   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

(E) caryophyllene; Casimiroa edulis; Essential oil; Germacrene D; Rutaceae

Indexed keywords

ALLOAROMADENDRIN; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; BETA COPAENE; BETA CUBEBENE; BETA ELEMENE; BETA PINENE; CARYOPHYLLENE DERIVATIVE; CASIMIROA EDULIS EXTRACT; CIS CADINA 1(6) 4 DIENE; EPIZONARENE; ESSENTIAL OIL; GAMMA AMORPHENE; GAMMA CADINENE; GAMMA GURJUNENE; GERMACRENE A; GERMACRENE D; HUMULENE; HYDROCARBON; SEDATIVE AGENT; SESQUITERPENOID; SIGMA AMORPHENE; SIGMA CADINENE; TRANS CADINA 1(6) 4 DIENE; TRANS MUUROLA 4(14)5 DIENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; SESQUITERPENE;

ARTICLE; CASIMIROA; CASIMIROA EDULIS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COSTA RICA; DISTILLATION; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PLANT LEAF; RUTACEAE; SLEEP INDUCTION; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; CHEMISTRY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION;

CASIMIROA EDULIS; RUTACEAE;

CASIMIROA; COSTA RICA; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; OILS, VOLATILE; PLANT LEAVES; SESQUITERPENES;

EID: 66149131008     PISSN: 1934578X     EISSN: 15559475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1934578x0900400322     Document Type: Article

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