A dihydrobenzofuran from indian dill seed oil☆

Essential oil composition of Zanthoxylum alatum seeds from northern India

“…The volatile oil has the characteristics of eucalyptus oil and is employed as an antiseptic, a deodorant and an anticatarrhal. 3 The chemical composition of the oil from seeds, 4 from the fruits collected from the wild 5 and from market, 6 from the pericarp of the wild fruit 7 and from the leaves, terminal branches and aerial parts 8 -10 have been 4 reported the presence of linalool (34.5%) as a major constituents in the seeds oil of Z. alatum, but recently Ramidi et al 1 reported the presence of linalool to an extent of 87.7% along with 30 other constituents. This drastic variation in the linalool content of the seeds oils prompted us to investigate the further from the seeds.…”

Hydroxyalk-(4Z)-enoic Acids and Volatile Components from the Seeds of Zanthoxylum armatum

“…The essential oil of this species has also been found to possess ascaricidal, antibacterial, anthelmintic, and antifungal properties (6)(7)(8)(9). Therefore, we included this oil in our screening program (10)(11)(12) and investigated it in detail by using glc and gc-ms. The fragrant essential oil, obtained after hydrodistillation of the seeds (yield 3.5%), was chromatographed to obtain linalool, limonene, and methyl cinnamate in pure form.…”

“…Fraction 7, after further cc (Si gel, hexane/EtOAc) and tic [CH2C12-MeOH (19:1)1 yielded 1 (80 mg, Ry0.38) and 2 (70 mg, Rf 0.30). The gc-ms of the essential oil was carried out as reported earlier (12), which showed the presence of linalool (55.30%), limonene (22.46%), methyl cinnamate (8.82%), and myreene (3.55%) as major constituents and ot-thujene (1.65%), 1,8-cineole (0.25%), ¿-cymene (0.65%), aj-ocimene (0.12%), y-terpinene (0.08%), camphor (0.25%), a-fenchol (0.68%), carvone (0.20%), a-terpineol (0.31%), tagetonol…”

Chemical Constituents of Essential Oil from <i>Anethum sowa</i> L. Herb (Leaf and Stem) Growing in Bangladesh

“…Essential oils of Dill herb and seed have been reported by many researchers (Guenther, 1953;Koedam et al, 1979;Lawrence, 1980;Schreier et al, 1981;Husain et al, 1994;Denys et al, 1995;Ahmed, 1990;Huopalahti, 1984. Halva, 1988Virmane and Data 1970).…”