Carraway-seed oil

Thujone was discovered by E. Schweizer. C. VolckeP discovered carvone in carraway seed oil, and cineol in wormseed oil. Carvone was shown to be a ketone related to limonene by H. Goldschmidt and R. Ziirrer. Linalool was discovered by distilling coriander oil by A. Kawalier and prepared from linaloe wood (licari kamali) by H. Morin.Geraniol was discovered by O. Jacobson in oil of palma rosa. F. W. Semmler " showed that it is an olefinic terpene with an open carbon chain. Menthone was obtained from oil of peppermint by R. W. Atkinson and H. Yoshida. (Menthol was known much earlier and was analysed by Dumas in 1832.) G. Bouchardat and R. Voiry obtained terpineol from essential oils. Citronellal (an aldehyde) was discovered by F. D. Dodge.2 ... 

Shaw s footnote (op. cif., p. 191) A drachm of compound spirit of nitre being poured on half a drachm of oil of carraway seeds in vacuo the mixture immediately made a flash like gun-powder, and burst the exhausted receiver, which was a glass six inches wide, and eight inches deep. 7 Quoted by N. D. Cheronis, article entitled Chemical Warfare in the Middle Ages. Kallinikos s Prepared Fire, . /. Chem. Education, 14, 360 (1937). 

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