Analysis of thermochemically-derived wood oil

✍ Scribed by Roger E. Schirmer; Terrance R. Pahl; Douglas C. Elliott

• Book ID: 103093872
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1984
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 548 KB
• Volume: 63
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-2361
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-2361(84)90014-0

✦ Synopsis

An oil derived by thermochemical conversion of Douglas fir wood chips has been characterized by capillary column gas chromatography/mass spectrometry analysis after fractionation by vacuum distillation. The oil was composed primarily of phenols, but cyclic ketones and alcohols were also present in the low-boiling fraction. The alkenes, cycloalkenes, and alkyl benzenes reported by other workers were not found, and the potential for confusing cyclic ketones and alcohols with them on the basis of both mass spectra and retention times is discussed.