The photolysis of trans-isohumulone to dehydrohumulinic acid, a key route to the development of sunstruck flavour in beer
- 1 January 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Perkin Transactions 1
- No. 12,p. 2715-2717
- https://doi.org/10.1039/p19870002715
Abstract
trans-Isohumulone (2) is photolysed to dehydrohumulinic acid (5) by a Norrish type 1 cleavage, affording a precursor of 3-methylbut-2-ene-1-thiol, the compound responsible for the sunstruck flavour of beer.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: