Sandalwoods Australian

Shellie, R., Marriott, P., Morrison, P. (2004) Comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography with flame ionization and time-of-flight mass spectrometry detection Qiralitative and quantitative analysis of west Australian sandalwood oil. J. Chromatogr. Sci. 42 417-422. 

Further relevant essential oil investigations have been performed the early works using FID, while the more recent ones using, preferably, a TOFMS as detector. Among the essential oils previously studied by means of GC x GC are peppermint [122] and Australian sandalwood [123], with the latter also analyzed through GC x GC-TOFMS in the same work. Essential oils derived from Thymbra spicata [124], Pistacia vera [125], hop [126], Teucrium chamaedrys [127], Rosa dama-scena [128], coriander [129], and Artemisia annua [130], as well as tobacco [131], have also been subjected to GC x GC-TOFMS analyses. The references cited herein represent only a fraction of the studies performed by means of GC x GC on essential oils. 

Valder C., 2003, Western Australian sandalwood oil—New constituents of Santalum spicatum (R.Br) A DC. 

India is the major producer of sandalwood oil (East Indian sandalwood oil). A closely related oil, Australian sandalwood oil, is derived from the wood of Eucarya spicata sprag. 

Australian sandalwood oil has recently been reported to contain a- and 3-santalols, a-bisabolol, a-bergamotol, famesol, nuci-ferol, and lanceol as the major components."... 

Sandalwood oil, obtained by distillation of the wood of Santalum album (East Indian), Santalum cygnorum (West Australian), and Amyris balsamifera (West Indian). The oils obtained from these three different sources differ veiy considerably in value, the East Indian being by far the best. 

In spite of the intensity of chemical investigation, it is still true that a completely representative survey of the family for heartwood flavonoids has still to be carried out. Chemical efforts have been concentrated in certain plant groups, notably on Acacia in the Australian and African floras, on Dalbergia, Machaeri-um and other Brazilian genera, and on some Asian taxa, such as the sandalwoods Pterocarpus. Our knowledge of flavonoid patterns is thus limited. Certain structural features that we assume to be characteristic of the family - e.g. the absence of 5-hydroxylation - may not in fact extend to more than a certain percentage of the family. 

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