Document Type

Article

Journal/Book Title/Conference

Chemica Scripta

Volume

16

Publication Date

1-1-1980

First Page

173

Last Page

180

Abstract

A comparison is made between methods for the isolation/enrichment of biologically active odors from Ophrys orchids. The main techniques discussed here are: 1. Direct odor collection (“direct headspace”), 2. Low temperature trapping, 3. Adsorption by "enfleurage" or by packed precolumn, 4. Strippiug of volatiles in the GC inlet system, 5. Solvent extraction, 6. Steam distillation. The organoleptic examination of thin-layer chromatographic and gas chromatographic fractions has been employed in this work and is briefly described. The further analyses of Ophrya odors were carried out by capillary gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. Four of the isolation methods are preferred. Two of these are accumulation methods (2 and 3), and the other two (4 and 5) give a cross section of the volatile constituents. Any of the six possible combinations of two of these four methods give good results depending on the main objectives of isolation. Characteristics/advantages of the six possible combinations between two of the methods are discussed.

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