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The Hive => Novel Discourse => Topic started by: El_Zorro on November 30, 2002, 11:20:00 PM

Title: Elemicin isomerization?
Post by: El_Zorro on November 30, 2002, 11:20:00 PM
How receptive would the elemicin molecule be to isomerization with KOH?  Would it end up as a big fat hairy ball of tar, or would it actually isomerize?  Has anyone actually tried it?
It is seductive, way too seductive.             -Eleusis
Title: Isomerization with KOH/EtOH
Post by: lugh on December 01, 2002, 12:46:00 AM

How receptive would the elemicin molecule be to isomerization with KOH?  Would it end up as a big fat hairy ball of tar, or would it actually isomerize?  Has anyone actually tried it?



Gildermeister and Hoffman in Die Ätherischen Öle 3d Ed, Vol I, 618 determined that the boiling point of isoelemicin is 155-6°C at 10mm Hg and it's density is 1.073  :) [image]

Title: Very nice, lugh. :-D
Post by: El_Zorro on December 01, 2002, 01:27:00 AM
Very nice, lugh. ;D
It is seductive, way too seductive.             -Eleusis