Current Topics in Flavor and Fragrance Research provides an excellent overview of recent advances in flavor and fragrances.

Proceeding of the conference Flavor & Fragrance 2007 in London organized by RCS and SCI, this major book discusses current topics of flavor and fragrance research, including Natural Products, Foods and Flavors, Perfumery and Olfaction.

Contents

• Human Olfactory Receptor Families and Their Odorants
• Retronasal Perception of Odors
• Odorant-Receptor Interactions and odor Percept: A Chemical Perspective
• Volatiles from Leaves and Rhizomes of Fragrant Acorus (Acoraceau)
• Flower Scents from the Pacific
• Chemistry Around Pinene and Pinane: A Facile Synthesis of Cyclobutanes and Oxatricylclo-Derivative of Pinane from cis- and trans-Pinanols
• Odorant Design Based on the Carbon/Silicon Switch Strategy
• Synthetic Applications of Enantioselective Protonation and Cas Study for (S)-a-Damascone
• Cetalox^® and Analogues: Synthesis via Acid-Mediated Polyene Cyclizations
• Wood Pretzels: Spirocycles from Vetiver to Patchouli and Georgywood^®
• Recent Developments in the Chemistry of Sandalwood Odorants
• New Oxa-Bridges Macrocycles
• Synthesis of I-Mucone by Asymmetric Methylation via Enol Esters
• Marine Fragrance Chemistry
• Enantioselective Synthesis and Olfactory Evaluation of 12-Alkyl-Substituted a-Iononess
• Homogeneous Asymmetric Ctalysis in Fragrance Chemistry
• Lewis Super-Acid Catalyzed Cyclizations: A New Route to Fragrance Compounds
• The Search for Innovative Fragrant Molecules
• New Norbornyl Derivatives as Woody Fragrant Materials
• Enzyme-Triggered and Self-Cleaving Fragrant Alcohol Precursors
• A Smelling Trip into the Past: The Influence of Synthetic Matrials on the History of Perfumery
• Perfume Formulation: Words and Chats
• 'Escentric' Molecules
• From Virgin Education to Real Education
• Instrumental and Sensory Approaches for the Characterization of Compounds Responsible for Wine Aroma
• Taste-Active Compounds in a Traditional Italian Food: 'Lampascioni'
• New Developments in Umami (Enhancing) Molecules
• High-Impact Sulfur Compunds: Constitutional and Configurational Assignment of Sulfur-Containing Heterocycles

Appendix of common names
Index

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