Journal of the Serbian Chemical Society (Aug 1999)

Alkanes from plants of the genus Achillea

  • GORDANA STOJANOVIC,
  • JASMINA VELICKOVIC,
  • GEOFFREY EGLINTON,
  • BRYAN C. BENITEZ-NELSON,
  • TIMOTHY I. EGLINTON,
  • RADOSAV PALIC

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 64, no. 7-8
pp. 443 – 446

Abstract

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The hydrocarbon fractions of three species of Achillea L. have been analysed by capillary gas chromatography (GC) and GC-mass spectrometry(GC-MS) and were shown to consist of the conventional, odd-carbon number dominant distributions of n-alkane homologues (C22-C35). n-Nonacosane (C29) is the main compound (ca. 40%), and the carbon preference index (CPI) is high (ca. 11).

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