(-)-FENCHONE

Description

d-Fenchone has a camphor-like odor, powerful and sweet, and a warm, somewhat bitter, burning taste. d-Fenchone is isolated from cedarleaf oil (thuja oil).

Chemical properties

clear colorless to pale yellow liquid

Chemical properties

d-Fenchone has a camphor-like odor, powerful and sweet and a warm, somewhat bitter, burning taste.

Occurrence

Reported found in several essential oils: Thuja plicata, Thuja occidentalis, Thuja standishii, Russian anise, fennel, a few Artemisia varieties (A frigida, A verlotorum, A santolinaefolia), Lavanda stoechas, Lavanda burmannii, and others; the highest levels are found in fennel oil (12 to 19%); two optically active forms have been isolated Also reported found in basil, caraway, cedar leaf oil, cloves, dill, licorice and thyme

The Uses of (-)-FENCHONE

As flavor in foods; in perfumes.

The Uses of (-)-FENCHONE

Reference Standard in the analysis of herbal medicinal products

What are the applications of Application

(+)-Fenchone is an analytical standard

Definition

ChEBI: A fenchone that has 1S,4R stereochemistry. A colourless, oily liquid found in fennel oil, it is used in perfumery and as flavour in foods.

Preparation

Isolated from cedarleaf oil (thuja oil).

Aroma threshold values

Detection: 510 ppb; aroma characteristics at 1.0%: cooling camphoreous, terpy, spicy, sweet mentholic pine-like.

Taste threshold values

Taste characteristics at 5 ppm: cooling camphoreous, with green citrus lime nuances.

General Description

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Exact content by quantitative NMR can be found on the certificate.

Purification Methods

The oily liquid is purified by distillation in a vacuum and is very soluble in EtOH and Et2O. [Boyle et al. J Chem Soc, Chem Commun 395 1971, Hückel Justus Liebigs Ann Chem 549 186 1941, (±)-isomer: Braun & Jacob Chem Ber 66 1461 1933.] It forms two oximes, cis-oxime: m 167o (crystallises from pet ether) [] D +46.5o (c 2, EtOH), O-benzoyloxime m 81o, [] D +49o