INVESTIGATION OF ESSENTIAL OIL FROM SABAL PALM (SERENOA REPENS (BARTR.) SMALL) FRUITS
The paper presents the results of a chemical investigation of essential oil from Sabal palm (Serenoa repens (Bartr.) Small). The steam-distilled fruit fraction is characterized as fatty-acid-type essential oil because it contains significant amounts of free aliphatic acids and their esters. Gas chromatography and chromate-mass spectrometry have revealed aliphatic acids and their esters (over 80%), monoterpenes (about 7%), simple phenols (nearly 3%), and sequiterpenes in the test essential oil.