Claim · model-written summary
sesquiterpene hydrocarbons made up 12.18% of the fennel leaf essential oil obtained by supercritical CO2 extraction.
- Taxon
- Fennel
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Anethum foeniculumt0 - Treatment
- supercritical CO 2 extractione0
- Outcome
- sesquiterpene hydrocarbonse0
- Value
- 12.18%e0
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Verbatim
t0“Fennel Leaves”
e0“The most dominant compounds of the essential oil obtained by supercritical CO 2 extraction were: oxygenated monoterpenes (57.52%), sesquiterpene hydrocarbons (12.18%) and oxygenated sesquiterpenes (9.37%)”
Title
Volatile Compounds of Fennel Leaves Obtained by Hydrodistillation and Supercritical CO 2
Nina Djapic Natural Product Communications 2026. doi:10.1177/1934578x261423703
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Observation Hydrodistillation gave an essential oil yield of 0.8% from fennel leaves.
- Observation Supercritical CO2 extraction gave an essential oil yield of 0.5% from fennel leaves.
- Observation oxygenated monoterpenes made up 75.05% of the fennel leaf essential oil obtained by hydrodistillation.
- Observation monoterpene hydrocarbons made up 7.97% of the fennel leaf essential oil obtained by hydrodistillation.
- Observation sesquiterpene hydrocarbons made up 3.72% of the fennel leaf essential oil obtained by hydrodistillation.
- Observation oxygenated monoterpenes made up 57.52% of the fennel leaf essential oil obtained by supercritical CO2 extraction.
- Observation oxygenated sesquiterpenes made up 9.37% of the fennel leaf essential oil obtained by supercritical CO2 extraction.
- Observation Anethole represented 65.77% of the essential oil obtained by hydrodistillation.
- Observation Anethole represented 20.16% of the essential oil obtained by supercritical CO2 extraction.
- Recommendation The authors recommend hydrodistillation as the method of choice for obtaining oxygenated monoterpenes from fennel leaves.