Randomly methylated- β cyclodextrin (RMfl-CD) was used as phase transfer catalysis to separate eitral from Litsea cubeba oil by addition reaction and hydrolysis reaction. The optimum separa- tion conditions were obtained by single factor experiment design and Box-Behnken experiment design. The purity and yield of citral were 96.50% and 86.60%, respectively, which was gotten under the opti- mum conditions of reaction time 3.3 h, RM-β-CD amount 0.65% (molar fraction) and reaction temperature 15.0 ℃. Predicted value was in accordance with a...