Chemistry of Essential Oils

COMPOSITE 295 OILS OF ACHILLEA. Achillea millefolium is an aromatic plant known as Millfoil whose leaves yield about 0*2 per cen ...

296 THE CHEMISTEY OF ESSENTIAL OILS Achillea moschata yields the so-called Iva oil, having the following characters:— Specific g ...

COMPOSITE 297 OIL OF CARLINA. This oil is distilled from the root of the thistle Carlina acaulis, indigenous to Central Europe. ...

298 THE CHBMISTEY OF ESSENTIAL OILS 1'0891 at 21°, optical rotation + 28°, and refractive index 1-53043. Costic acid, C 15 H 22 ...

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 When Distilled. 1 May, 1912 13 „ 25 , 27 June, „ 30 July, „ 8 Sept., 1911 13 „ „ 27 Oct., „ 16 Nov., „ 2 ...

300 THE CHEMISTEY OF ESSENTIAL OILS found wild in other tropical and subtropical countries, yields an essential oil having the f ...

COMPOSITE 301 Solidago rugosa yields 0*5 per cent, of an oil of the following characters:— Specific gravity £Lfjl 0*862 25 Optic ...

302 THE CHEMISTEY OF ESSENTIAL OILS OIL OF AGEBATUM OONYZOIDBS. According to Murat, this member of the Composite abounds in Anna ...

COMPOSITE 303 The known constituents of the oil are the terpene, limonene, terpineol, and traces of citronellal. OIL OF ELECAMPA ...

304 THE CHEMISTEY OF ESSENTIAL OILS Besides esters and alcohols, a small quantity of aldehyde or ketone, which yields a crystall ...

UMBELLIFEE^E (^305) » Bavaria, wild 6-5 to 7 per cent. Finnish........ 5 to 6 Hessian, wild 6 „ 7 Moravian, cultivated ...... 4 ...

306 THE CHEMISTKY OF ESSENTIAL OILS the market to be disposed of. A portion of the carvone is abstracted by fractional distillat ...

UMBELLIFEK^E 307 French , Italian , Morocco , Russian. . 4 per cent. -5 . •2 to -3 per cent. -8 „ -1 „ Dutch. Moravian East In ...

308 THE CHEMISTEY OF ESSENTIAL OILS According to Walbaum, the oil contains about 50 per cent, of linalol,. but his results were ...

UMBELLIFEE.ZB 309 distilled from the herb, with or without the unripe fruits. It has a specific gravity 0-905 to 0'935, optical ...

310 THE CHEMISTEY OF ESSENTIAL OILS The principal constituent of the oil is anethol, and the oil also con- tains fenchone, a-phe ...

UMBELLIFEE^E 311 methoxystilbene. A crystalline substance melting at 164° to 165° is also present in the oil. Water fennel oil i ...

312 THE CHEMISTKY OF ESSENTIAL OILS The oil has been exhaustively examined by Schimmel & Co.^1 After repeated fractionation ...

UMBELLIFEE^ 313 to 211°), another body, melting-point 200° to 201°, crystallising in thin prisms. This latter semi-carbazone was ...

314 THE CHBMISTEY OF ESSENTIAL OILS Fractionation— Below 180 185 190 195 200 205 210 215 220 225 230 235 240 2 per <sent- 24 ...