Analysis of thymol and eugenol employing ion exchange resins

✍ Scribed by Floyd A. Wagner; Muriel C. Vincent

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1962
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 187 KB
• Volume: 51
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0022-3549
• DOI: 10.1002/jps.2600510416

✦ Synopsis

A quantitative analysis for thymol, eugenol, and clove oil has been developed by means of a spectrophotometric-anion exchange procedure. Suitable reagents which will produce colored compounds with small amounts of the phenolic substances have been selected. A comparison with the official assay for clove oil has been made. The ion exchange method indicated a full recovery of the phenols present in the oil and could be conducted in a much shorter period of time than the official method.

HE QUANTITATIVE determinations for volatile Toils and their constituents are numerous, and in the case of the oils the assays frequently depend on a particular group of chemical substances rather than a specific compound. In this respect, then, it would be quite desirable t o have a procedure capable of rapidly, accurately, and