Synthesis and Distribution of (─)-Mintsulfide, a Novel Sulfur-containing Sesquiterpene
- 1 January 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Agricultural and Biological Chemistry
- Vol. 45 (1) , 129-132
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00021369.1981.10864466
Abstract
(─)-Mintsulfide [(─)-1], a new sulfur-containing sesquiterpene found in peppermint oil, was synthesized from (─)-germacrene-d[(─)-3] by a photochemical reaction and was confirmed to be (1R)-cis-2,6-epithio-cis-8-isopropyl-l-methyl-5-methylene-cis-bicyclo-[5,3,0]decane. The existence of 1 was confirmed in 13 of 74 essential oils analyzed.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: