Chemical Characterization of ziziphus spina chrisiti Wood Extractives using Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectroscopy Technique

The polar and non-polar extractives of Ziziphus spina chrisiti wood were investigated using acetone and ethanol solvents with soxhlet extractor. The extracted portions were further analysed and characterized by GC/MS technique. Results have shown that dinormal-octyl phethalate was the most component of ethanol extracted portion with abundancy of 25.40% and phethalic acid-2-hexyl ester with 2.94% in case of acetone extracted components. Waxes as the most abundance extractives of ziziphus wood were mainly extracted with ethanol and among them dotheriacoanthan was the main component.