Plant Diversity ›› 2007, Vol. 29 ›› Issue (03): 367-370.

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Palaeophytochemical Constituents from the Pliocene-fossil Wood of Tsuga dumosa (Pinaceae)

ZHAO You-Xing1 , LI Cheng-Sen2 , LUO Xiao-Dong1 , ZHOU Lu3 , YI Tie-Mei2 , ZHOU Jun1   

  1. 1 State Key Laboratory of Phytochemistry and Plant Resources in West China , Kunming Instituteof Botany , Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650204 , China; 2 Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093 , China; 3 Yunnan Development & Research Center of F & F, Kunming 650051 , China
  • Received:2006-11-16 Online:2007-06-25 Published:2007-06-25
  • Contact: ZHOU Jun

Abstract: Palaeophytochemical investigation of the Pliocene-fossil wood of Tsuga dumosa found in brown coal led to the detection of 22 volatiles and the isolation of 9 compounds (1 - 9) , including six types of n-alkanes (C16 up to C32 ), fatty acids, steroids, triterpenoids, phthalates and aromatic compounds . Their structures were elucidated on the basis of spectroscopic
evidence .

Key words: Pliocene-fossil

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