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JOURNAL OF CHROMATOGRAPHY A
Volume 1218, Issue 1, Pages 137-142Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.chroma.2010.10.117
Keywords
Sandalwood essential oil; Santalum album; Santalum spicatum; Santalum austrocaledonicum; MDGC
Funding
- Italian Ministry for the University and Research (MUR) [RBIP06SXMR]
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The production and trade of Indian sandalwood oil is strictly regulated, due to the impoverishment of the plantations; for such a reason, Australian sandalwood oil has been evaluated as a possible substitute of the Indian type. International directives report, for both the genuine essential oils, specific ranges for the sesquiterpene alcohols (santalols). In the present investigation, a multidimensional gas chromatographic system (MDGC), equipped with simultaneous flame ionization and mass spectrometric detection (FID/MS), has been successfully applied to the analysis of a series of sandalwood oils of different origin. A detailed description of the system utilized is reported. Three santalol isomers, (Z)-alpha-trans-bergamotol, (E,E)-farnesol,(Z)-nuciferol, epi-alpha-bisabolol and (Z)-lanceol have been quantified. LoD (MS) and LoQ (FID) values were determined for (E,E)-farnesol, used as representative of the oxygenated sesquiterpenic group, showing levels equal to 0.002% and 0.003%, respectively. A great advantage of the instrumental configuration herein discussed, is represented by the fact that identification and quantitation of target analytes are carried out in one step, without the need to perform two separate analyses. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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