rare chemotype in region specific Santalum Album

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CIS NUCIFEROL: 0,41 %GC (Z)-nuciferol - detected with a refractive index

detector by NMR analyses, characterized by high proportions of

alpha-santaldiol (gives it a unique top note) - usually restricted to

Terre-Deserte, in dry and low altitude area - this newly described

chemotype could be explained either by contrast in the ecological

conditions of sandalwood growth or by botanical differences - nuciferol

has a highly polar constituent fraction, and sesquiterpene enriched. I

have questions about the bondings of nuciferol in contrast to the higher

sesquiterpene fraction...

 

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Resources I used:

 

Jean-Frangois Butaud

 

Departement Foret et Gestion de l'Espace Rural, Service de Developpement

Rural, BP 100, 98713 Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia

 

Phila Raharivelomanana* and Jean-Pierre Bianchini

 

Laboratoire de Chimie Analytique Appliquee, Universite de la Polynesie

frangaise, BP 6570, 98702 Faaa, Tahiti, French Polynesia