Walter Armando Palacios

Chemical and enantioselective analyses of Protium amazonicum resin essential oil: featuring the first natural occurrence of 4-epi-eudesm-5-ene

This study reports, for the first time, the chemical composition of an essential oil, distilled from the resin of Protium amazonicum collected in Ecuador within its native ecological context. Hydrodistillation gave an exceptionally high yield of 9.3% (w/w). GC analyses, using pol...