Table 1.
Chemical profiles of frankincense essential oil fractions
| |
Boswellia sacra |
Fractions (%) |
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ret. Index | Component | I | II | III | IV |
| 755 |
toluene |
0.18 |
0.16 |
0.10 |
0.06 |
| 922 |
unidentified* |
1.13 |
1.05 |
1.03 |
0.80 |
| 929 |
alpha-thujene |
0.87 |
1.02 |
0.98 |
0.93 |
| 940 |
alpha-pinene |
78.45 |
76.29 |
65.49 |
59.40 |
| 953 |
camphene + verbenene |
4.09 |
4.39 |
3.42 |
3.46 |
| 973 |
sabinene |
1.41 |
1.11 |
2.12 |
3.63 |
| 979 |
beta-pinene |
2.16 |
2.33 |
2.27 |
2.38 |
| 987 |
myrcene |
2.56 |
2.82 |
7.46 |
5.36 |
| 994 |
ortho-methyl anisole |
0.16 |
0.18 |
0.17 |
0.35 |
| 1004 |
alpha-phellandrene |
0.54 |
0.69 |
1.20 |
1.30 |
| 1011 |
delta-3-carene |
0.03 |
0.04 |
0.89 |
0.09 |
| 1018 |
para-cymene |
0.65 |
0.87 |
1.24 |
1.23 |
| 1031 |
limonene |
5.55 |
6.92 |
8.43 |
8.99 |
| 1039 |
cis-beta-ocimene |
0.07 |
0.10 |
0.19 |
0.33 |
| 1055 |
gamma-terpinene |
0.06 |
0.10 |
0.22 |
0.44 |
| 1079 |
para-cymenene |
0.04 |
0.05 |
0.05 |
0.08 |
| 1085 |
alpha-terpinolene |
0.04 |
0.06 |
0.17 |
0.29 |
| 1101 |
myrcenol |
0.05 |
0.05 |
0.06 |
0.11 |
| 1112 |
alpha-campholene aldehyde |
0.08 |
0.13 |
0.30 |
0.70 |
| 1134 |
trans-pinocarveol |
0.07 |
0.10 |
0.27 |
0.77 |
| 1138 |
cis-verbenol |
0.07 |
0.07 |
0.22 |
0.46 |
| 1146 |
unidentified** |
0.03 |
0.05 |
0.12 |
0.41 |
| 1149 |
pinocamphone |
0.02 |
0.02 |
0.04 |
0.11 |
| 1153 |
alpha-phellandren-8-ol |
0.03 |
0.04 |
0.22 |
0.80 |
| 1160 |
borneol |
|
|
0.01 |
0.06 |
| 1166 |
para-cymene-8-ol |
0.03 |
0.04 |
0.07 |
0.13 |
| 1171 |
terpinene-4-ol |
0.03 |
0.04 |
0.14 |
0.50 |
| 1180 |
alpha-terpineol + myrtenal |
0.05 |
0.06 |
0.12 |
0.40 |
| 1187 |
myrtenol |
0.02 |
0.02 |
0.05 |
0.13 |
| 1191 |
verbenone |
|
0.07 |
0.15 |
0.42 |
| 1203 |
cis-carveol |
0.01 |
0.01 |
0.04 |
0.10 |
| 1243 |
dimethyl ether orcinol |
|
|
0.06 |
0.10 |
| 1278 |
bornyl acetate |
0.04 |
0.05 |
0.19 |
0.47 |
| 1339 |
alpha-terpenyl acetate |
0.01 |
0.01 |
0.05 |
0.15 |
| 1391 |
alpha-copaene |
0.01 |
0.01 |
0.06 |
0.13 |
| 1400 |
beta-elemene |
0.03 |
0.04 |
0.41 |
0.94 |
| 1437 |
trans-beta-caryophyllene |
0.02 |
0.02 |
0.28 |
0.62 |
| 1470 |
alpha-humulene |
0.03 |
0.01 |
0.11 |
0.17 |
| 1477 |
allo-aromadendrene |
|
|
0.02 |
0.06 |
| 1485 |
gamma-muurolene |
|
0.01 |
0.05 |
0.10 |
| 1494 |
germacrene D |
|
|
0.02 |
0.09 |
| 1501 |
beta-selinene |
0.01 |
0.02 |
0.21 |
0.45 |
| 1509 |
alpha-selinene |
0.02 |
0.01 |
0.12 |
0.24 |
| 1523 |
gamma-cadinene |
|
|
0.04 |
0.07 |
| 1527 |
delta-cadinene |
|
0.01 |
0.05 |
0.14 |
| 1593 |
caryophyllene oxide |
|
|
0.02 |
0.05 |
| Total | 99.30 | 99.42 | 99.31 | 98.78 | |
*unidentified m/z 93(100%), 41(54%), 67(39%), 69(36%), 91(33%), 77(29%), 79(26%), 39(25%), 108(15%), 53(14%), 55(12%), 121(9%).
**unidentified m/z 59(100%), 79(85%), 94(85%), 91(66%), 77(37%), 43(37%), 93(36%), 92(20%), 39(17%), 119(11%), 51(10%), 78(10%).