Esters in Australian Geranium Oil (PelargoniumHybrid)

This paper is the first detailed report of straight chain and branched esters in Australian geranium oil. Hydrodistillation of 41 samples of Australian-grown rose geranium (Pelargoniun hybrid) produced oils containing four detectable parent alcohols; 2-phenylethanol (0.9%), citronellol (16.9%), nerol (0.9%) and geraniol (11.3%) and 47 of their esters. The esters present were formates (19.7%), tiglates (4.0%), propanoates (2.4%), butyrates...