Atlas cedar

A cedar-wood oil has been distilled during the past few- years from tho wood of Cairii.i Atlan/ica, the so-called Atlas eedar, which is probably a variety of Cedrvi lAbam. the cedar oI Letbaoon. This oil has the followiai- eliar tr t<-.rs. —... 

The fraction of oil of cade boiling at 260° to 280° is converted into cadinene dihydrochloride by saturating its solution in dry ether with dry hydrochloric acid gas. The hydrochloride is separated, dried, and leorystallised, and the hydrochloric acid removed by heating it with aniline or with sodium acetate in glacial acetic acid. The liberated cadinene is rectified in a current of steam. Cadinene from oil of cade is highly laevo-rotatory, the dextro-rotatory variety being obtained from Atlas cedar oil and West Indian sandalwood oil. 

Acetone, CH3. CO. CH3, essential oils such as that of the Atlas cedar. 

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Cedrus species have been investigated recently the deodar tree Cedrus deodara has yielded a richer mixture of dihydroflavonols than has the atlas cedar C. atlan-tica (Table 7.5.6) (2). Needle constituents of these two species, as well as of C. libaniy have also been examined, and there are again considerable differences between species. 

Common/vernacular names Cedar oil, cedarwood oil, red cedarwood oil (cedarwood oil Virginia) cedarwood oil Moroccan (cedarwood oil Atlas). 

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