Essential oils organic

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Essential is also used as the adjective form of the noun essence The mixtures of substances that make up the fragrant material of plants are called essential oils because they contain the essence that is the odor of the plant The study of the composition of essential oils ranks as one of the oldest areas of organic chemical research Very often the principal volatile component of an essential oil belongs to a class of chemical sub stances called the terpenes... 

Essential oils (Section 26 7) Pleasant smelling oils of plants consisting of mixtures of terpenes esters alcohols and other volatile organic substances Ester (Sections 4 1 and 20 1) Compound of the type... 

Organic from Water An area where pei vaporation may become important is in flavors, fragrances, and essential oils. Here, high-value materials with unique properties are recovered from aqueous or alcohol solutions. 

It is the determination of volatile organic compounds produced from natural products that requires separation techniques that allow isolation of stereoisomers. The most commonly determined groups are the terpene and sesquiterpene species present in essential oils, which are used as key indicators of biological factors such as the growth season, geographic location, climate, etc. These species are also released directly into the atmosphere by very many plants and trees, and make a substantial contribution to global biogeochemical cycles. 

Supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) has been extensively used for the extraction of volatile components such as essential oils, flavours and aromas from plant materials on an industrial as well as an analytical scale (61). The extract thus obtained is usually analysed by GC. Off-line SFE-GC is frequently employed, but on-line SEE-GC has also been used. The direct coupling of SEE with supercritical fluid chromatography (SEC) has also been successfully caried out. Coupling SEE with SEC provides several advantages for the separation and detection of organic substances low temperatures can be used for both SEE and SEC, so they are well suited for the analysis of natural materials that contain compounds which are temperature-sensitive, such as flavours and fragrances. 

There are, of course, numerous other functions which the essential oils possess, but in r ard to which any views must necessarily be of a highly speculative nature. For example, Tyndall has suggested that, especially where secretion (or excretion) takes place near the surface of an organ. 

It must, however, be remembered that we are here dealing with pure water only, whereas in the plant economy we are dealing with solutions of organic substances, in which essential oils would almost certainly be dissolved more easily than in pure water. 

July, 1905, commencement of flowering. The roots were now found to be richer in essential oil than the stetns. In all the organs the proportion had increased, and in the leaves it had doubled. 

In regard to the distribution of the essential oil from one organ of the plant to another, it has been established that there is a circulation of the odorous compounds from the green portions of the plant into the flowers. 

If, on the other hand, the aldehydic or ketonic portion of the essential oil is sparingly soluble, the effects of the phenomenon of circulation on the composition of the essential oils from the various organs will be the reverse of those produced by the chemical changes which take place in the inflorescence, since the principles which are displaced are principally those which are most soluble. The relative insolubility of such ketones and aldehydes will tend to make the oil of the leaves richer in these compounds on account of their restricted power of circulation, and on the other hand, to make the oil of the inflorescences richer in alcoholic principles, whilst the actual formation of these compounds in the inflorescence will have the effect of increasing the proportion of aldehydes or ketones in the inflorescence. The net result depends on which of the two features predominates. 

The earlier researches of Charabot have shown that the essential oil of the flowers is richer in menthone than the essential oil of the leaves. And it is in spite of a circulation of menthol, a soluble principle, from the leaf to the inflorescence, that this latter organ contains an essential oil particularly rich in menthone. It must therefore be that the menthol is there converted into menthone by oxidation. 

The differences in composition between the two essential oils examined show well, if they be compared with those which exist between the essential oils of the leaves and the inflorescences, that the distribution of the odorous principles between the leaf, the organ of production, and the flower, the organ of consumption, tends to take place according to their relative solubilities. But this tendency may be inhibited, or on the other hand, it may be favoured by the chemical metamorphoses which the substances undergo at any particular point of their passage or at any particular centre of accumulation. Thus, in the present case, some of the least soluble principles, the esters of menthol, are most abundant in the oil of the leaves, whilst another, menthone, is richest in the oil of an organ to which there go, by circulation, nevertheless, the most soluble portions. This is because this organ (the flower) constitutes the. medium in which the formation of this insoluble principle is particularly active. 

The fatty acids of higher molecular weight than caproic acid are of little interest or importance so far as essential oils are concerned, and for their characters, the reader is referred to standard works on general organic chemistry. 

The polarimeter is an instrument with which the essential oil chemist cannot possibly dispense. The hypothesis, first seriously enunciated by Le Bel and van t Hoff, that substances which contained an asymmetric carbon atom i.e. a carbon atom directly united to four different atoms or radicles) were capable of rotating the plane of polarisation of a beam of polarised light, has now become a fundamental theory of organic chemistry-. The majority of essential oils contain one or more components containing such a carbon atom, and so possess the power of effecting this rotation. In general, the extent to which a given oil can produce this effect is fairly constant, so that it can be used, within limits, as a criterion of the purity or otherwise of the oil. 

It has been known for centuries that codistillation of many plant materials with steam produces a fragrant mixture of liquids called essential oils. For hundreds of years, such plant extracts have been used as medicines, spices, and perfumes. The investigation of essential oils also played a major role in the emergence of organic chemistry as a science during the 19th century. 

Chemically, plant essential oils consist largely of mixtures of compounds known as terpenoids —small organic molecules with an immense diversity of structure. More than 35,000 different terpenoids are known. Some are open-chain molecules, and others contain rings some are hydrocarbons, and others contain oxygen. Hydrocarbon terpenoids, in particular, are known as terpenes, and all contain double bonds. For example ... 

Cold-pressed essential oils from the peel are some of the most important by-products recovered during the processing of Citrus fruits. The presence of limonene in the aqueous discharges, with its antimicrobial activity [1], decreases the effectiveness of the waste treatment system and increases the time necessary for the biological breakdown of the organic matter produced in the peel oil recovery system [2,3]. Additional recovery of essential oils from waste water would increase industry s returns and reduce the pollution problems associated with the disposal of waste water [4,5]. Several methods for reducing the levels of residual essential oils in the aqueous effluent have been developed over the years [6-11]. 

In India the demand for organic products (spices, medicinal herbs, essential oils, pulses, etc.) has outstripped supply (Sathyan-arayana, 2000). In China the estimated value of exported organic... 

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