Dl-Camphene

After addition of a few milliliters at 15°C, the thick slurry thins slowly and the remainder of the sulfuric-glacial acetic acid mixture was added at 0° to 2°C. A total of about 2 hours was required for the addition. After addition, stirring was continued for 15 minutes. Then dropwise, over an hour, a solution of 178 g (1.3 mols) of dl-camphene in 50 ml of glacial acetic acid was added while keeping the temperature at about 0°C ( 3°C). 

A soln. containing dl-camphene, N-nitrosopiperidine, and coned. HCl in methanol irradiated 1 hr. with a 200 w. Hanovia medium-pressure lamp -> dl-camphenilone oxime. Y 70-85%. F. e. s. H. H. Quon and Y. L. Chow, Tetrahedron 31, 2349 (1975). 

Elettaria cardamomum Maton. Yi Zhi Zi (Cluster cardamom) (seed) Phytosterol, palmitic acid, oleic acid, linoleic acid, p-cymene, camphene, d-limonene, myrcene, alpha-phellandrene, pinene, sabinene, terpinene, thujone, cineole, camphorm citral, linalol, citronellal, dl-bomeol, citronellol, geraniol, terpineol, sabinene.50 Carminative, emmenagogue, stimulant, stomachic, tonic. Treat ague, cachexia, dyspepsis, enuresis, gastralgia, nausea, spermatorrhea. 

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