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Cubebene

Cubebenes are a pair of chemical compounds, classified as sesquiterpenes, first isolated from Piper cubeba berries, known as cubebs.

The volatile oil from the distillation of cubebs is a pale green or blue-yellow viscous liquid with a warm woody, slightly camphoraceous odor consisting of cubebene which comes in two forms, α- and β-cubebene, both with the molecular formula C15H24. They differ only in the position of a double bond which is endocyclic (part of the five-membered ring) in α-cubebene, but exocyclic in β-cubeαbene.

Additional plant sources

A 2022 study detected α-cubebene in samples of oleoresin from three pine species (Pinus elliottii, Pinus pinaster, Pinus tropicalis) via mass spectrometry.

α-cubebene was detected in Vitis vinifera Lemberger cultivar fruit via gas chromatography-mass spectrometry.

References

References

  1. Lawless, Julia. (1995). "The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Essential Oils: The Complete Guide to the Use of Oils in Aromatherapy and Herbalism". Element Books.
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  3. (1966). "Sesquiterpene hydrocarbons from the oil of cubeb α-cubebene and β-cubebene". Tetrahedron Letters.
  4. (2022-07-01). "Characterization and classification of Pinus oleoresin samples according to Pinus species, tapping method, and geographical origin based on chemical composition and chemometrics". Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology.
  5. (2019-08-14). "Analysis of sesquiterpene hydrocarbons in grape berry exocarp (Vitis vinifera L.) using in vivo-labeling and comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC×GC–MS)". Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry.
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