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The Hive => Chemicals & Equipment => Topic started by: esoteric on November 16, 2003, 10:49:00 AM

Title: Essential Oils vs. Alkaloid content
Post by: esoteric on November 16, 2003, 10:49:00 AM

Title: short answer: no
Post by: hypo on November 16, 2003, 11:07:00 AM

(if your question was whether the essential oils of
those contain syring(a)aldehyde)

long answer: those plants do not contain syringaldehyde
in free form but rather as a part of huge lignin macromolecules.
you have to oxidise the lignin first and then separate
the syringaldehyde from the other aldehydes. there's many
good refs in TFSE.

Title: so it would not be in the oil of that plant...
Post by: esoteric on November 17, 2003, 10:00:00 PM

so it [syringaldehyde] would not be in the oil of that plant but rather as a part of structure of the plant.

Title: Yup
Post by: Rhodium on November 18, 2003, 11:05:00 AM

Yes, that's correct. If you utfse on "lignin syringaldehyde" you'll find a lot more info.