Identification of Essential Oil Composition of Peel and Fruits of Citrus hystrix DC.

Abstract

The essential oils isolated by hydrodistillation from the peel and fruits of fresh Citrus hystrix DC, were identified by GC-Kovats retention indices and GC-EI-MS. Twenty six (26) compounds have been identified from the peel and thirty seven (37) compounds have been identified from the fruit oils. The major compounds contained in peel oil were β-pinene (27%), limonene (24.7%) and sabinene (13.8%) while α-terpeneol (15.8%), β-pinene (15.1 %) and limonene (9.1 %) were the major compounds of fruit oil.