Constituents of the flower and fruit oils of Persea bombycina (King ex Hook. f.) Kost from India

The essential oils obtained by hydrodistn. from the fresh flowers and fruits of Persea bombycina (King ex Hook. f.) Kost (previously called Machilus bombycina King) were examd. by a combination of high resoln. GC and GC/MS. The flower oil contained more than 65 compds. of which the major constituents were found to be caryophyllene oxide (19.4%), (E)-nerolidol (14.5%), 11-dodecenal (11.2%) and 11-dodecenoic acid (9.8%). The compn. of the fruit oil was entirely different. Among the more than 60 (mostly oxygenated) constituents, the furanoid forms of trans- (8.0%) and cis-linalool oxide (7.3%) were major components, but many compds. could not be identified. [on SciFinder (R)]