Research Article
Farshid Salimi , Ali Shafaghat
Abstract
The hydrodistilled essential oil from the gum of pistacia atlantica Desf. Subsp. was analyzed by GC and GC/MS methods. Eighteen components were characterizatized representing 99.5% of the total components detected. The four major components of the oil were α-Pinene (81.9%), β- Pinene (7.4%), camphene (2.7%) and verbenol (2.5%). The essential oil of this sample, as it can be seen, was rich in α-Pinene