FRACTIONATION OF JUNIPER BERRY ESSENTIAL OILS OBTAINED BY CLASSICAL AND MICROWAVE-ASSISTED HYDRODISTILLATION
The composition of the essential oil of juniper (Juniperus communis L.) depends on plant age, geographical origin, fruit maturity, etc. Nevertheless, juniper essential oil mainly consists of terpene hydrocarbons: monoterpenes (up to 85%) and sesquiterpenes ( up to 27%), along with their oxygenated derivatives (up to 4%). Consequently, researc...
By Miljana Krstić, Nevenka Bošković Vragolović, Ana Veličković, Svetomir Milojević, Jelena Avramović, Ivan J. Stojković, Vlada Veljković