Isolation cold pressing

Chen, J., Montanari, A.M., and Widmer, W.W., Two new pol5nnethoxylated flavones, a class of compounds with potential anticancer activity, isolated from cold pressed dancy tangerine peel oil solids, J. Agric. Food Chem., 45, 364, 1997. 

Although the essential oils, absolutes, resinoids, and so on, are universally regarded as natural perfume materials, we know today that their isolation from the plant tissue is accompanied by chemical changes, so that they are not really natural in the strict sense. The most gentle technique available for isolating essential oils from plant material is cold pressing ironically, the two most widely used cold-pressed oils in perfumery, bergamot and lime, are not safe and must be treated before they can be used in perfumes. 

According to ISO and AFNOR standards, essential oils are defined as products obtained from raw plant material which must be isolated by physical means only. The physical methods used are distillation (steam, steam-water and water), expression (also known as cold pressing for citrus peel oils), or dry distillation of natural materials. After distillation, the essential oil is physically separated from the aqueous phase (Fig. 22.1) [20-22]. 

Cltnis oHs. Essential oil obtained from the peel of citrus fruits (bergamot, grapefruit, lime, mandarin, orange, lemon). Since the oil is stored in small bubbles in the outer peel (albedo) it can be isolated by mechanical processes. C. are thus known as pressed or cold-pressed oils. 

Expression or cold pressing is a process in which the oil glands within the peels of citrus fruits are mechanically crushed to release their content. There are several different processes used for the isolation of citrus oils however, there are four major currently used processes. Those are pellatrice and sfumatrice—most often used in Italy—and the Brown peel shaver as well as the FMC extractor, which are used predominantly in North and South America. For more details, see, for example, Tawrence 1995. All these processes lead to products that are not entirely volatile because they may contain cou-marins, plant pigments, and so on however, they are nevertheless acknowledged as essential oils by the International Organization for Standardization, the different pharmacopoeias, and so on. 

Essential oils are complex mixtures of volatile compounds produced by plants as secondary metabolites. They are obtained of taxonomically defined plant material mainly by water or steam distillation with the exception of essential oils from citrus peels obtained by cold pressing. Fragrance- and flavor-producing substances can be isolated by many other methods. However, such products shall not be considered as essential oils (Franz and Novak 2010). 

The most valuable citrus peel oils are isolated by cold pressing of the fresh peel from the evergreen trees fruit. However, citrus peel oils produced by hydrodistillation, as well as terpeneless citrus oils are also available on the market. These oils have less valuable quality but they are more stable and less sensitive to oxidation. The oils from leaves, twigs or flowers of different citrus trees were also produced. Three citrus peel oils have monographs in EP 5, lemon, mandarin and sweet orange oil. 

Lemon (Citrus limon L. Rutaceae). The essential oil is isolated by cold pressing of peels or peel pulp, yield of 0.4-4%. Lemon oil is a clear, pale yellow to greenish-yellow liquid that becomes cloudy at low temperatures. It has characteristic odor and taste of outer lemon peel part. Lemon oil is widely used in lemon and other natural flavors pineapple, butterscotch and banana flavors, and can be mixed with other citrns oils like lime, orange and grapefruit. 

Weiss E.R., Pika J., Braddock R.J. isolation and identification ofterpene chlorohydrins found in cold-pressed orange oU. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 51 2277-2282 (2003). 

Bicycloelemene (227) has been isolated from Conocephalum conicum 313) and detected in both Jungermanniales and the Metzgeriales species 28). The enantiomer of (227) has been isolated from pepermint oil 339) and cold-pressed peel oil of Citrus junos 274, 302, 317). 

Method B A mixture of copper(II) phthalocyanine (3 1.2 g, 2 mmol) and C1S03H (5 mL) was stirred for 3 h at 138-140 C and then for 3 h with SOCI, (1.5 mL) at 80 85 C. The mixture was then cooled, poured onto ice, and filtered. The precipitate was washed on the filter with cold H,0 until neutral, pressed off well, and dried. The l,4-tetra(chlorosulfonyl)phthalocyanine 4 obtained was mixed with Et2NH (2mL) in CHCl3 (50 mL)and the mixture was stirred for 24 hat 25 30 C. By repeated chromatographic separation (alumina, CHC13/ benzene 2 1) the title compound 5 was isolated yield 0.3 g (13 %). 

The samples used in this study are listed in Table I with selected characterization data. Also given are our notations for the samples. S and B represent polystyrene and polybutadiene, respectively. The block polymers are denoted S/Bi, S/B2, etc. The letters identify the polymer components with the first letter indicating the center segment. The polymers were isolated from the polymerization solution by precipitation into cold (0°C), well-stirred methanol. After careful drying in a vacuum oven (25°C), film samples were prepared by melt pressing at temperatures ranging from 25 °C for homopolybutadiene to 150 °C for homopolystyrene. 

For experimental details on the isolation, purification and manipulation of DNA and RNA the reader is refetred to J. Sambrook, E.F. Fritsch and T. Maniatis, Molecular Cloning-A Laboratory Manual, 2nd Edn, (3 volumes). Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, (CSHL Press) NY, 1989, ISBN 0879693096 (paperback) ... 

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Bromination, Work-Up, and Isolation Add the bromine solution to the rapidly stirred solution of acetanilide over a period of 1-2 min continue stirring the reaction mixture for about 10 min after completing the addition. Slowly add 100 mL of ice-cold water with stirring and then add just enough ice-cold saturated aqueous sodium bisulfite to discharge the color of the mixture that results. Cool the mixture in an ice-water bath and collect the product by vacuum filtration. If the crude product appears yellow, wash it with aqueous sodium bisulfite. In any case, wash it well with cold water and press it as dry as possible on the filter. The product may be recrystallized from methanol. ... 

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