Full Length Research Paper

Chemical analysis of essential oils from cone’s rosin of Cilician fir (Abies cilicica subsp. cilicica)

K. Sinan Dayisoylu¹ and M. Hakki Alma²

¹Department of Food Engineering, Faculty of Agricultural, University of Kahramanmaras Sutcu Imam, Kahramanmaras, 46100 Turkey.

²Department of Industrial Engineering of Forestry, Faculty of Forestry, University of Kahramanmaras Sutcu Imam, Kahramanmaras, 46060 Turkey.

*Corresponding author. E-mail: alma@ksu.edu.tr. Tel.: ++90344 223 7666.

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Accepted 8 May, 2009

   Abstract

The essential oil from the resin of cones of Abies cilicica (Ant. Et Kotschy.) subsp. cilicia Carr. (Abieta-ceae) grown in Turkey was obtained by the hydro-distillation method and its chemical composition was analyzed by GC and GC-MS. The results showed that the essential oil contained about 92.78% mono-terpenes, 2.7% oxygenated monoterpenes and 1.78% sesquiterpenes. Major components of the oil are as follows; a-pinene (68.19%), b-pinene (11.91%) and myrcene (8.62%).

Key words: Essential oil, Abies cilicica, Turkey, cone, resin, chemical, composition.