Saturday, 1 May 2010

Essential oil chemistry


Monoterpenes

Physical, chemical and therapeutic properties

Sesquiterpenes

Physical, chemical and therapeutic properties

Diterpenes
 
Physical, chemical and therapeutic properties
 
Oxygenated compounds - hydrocarbon or terpene with functional group alcohol, ketone or aldehyde
 
eg Monoterpenol, sesquiterpenol, diterpenol
 
monoterpenol therapeutic properties
 
phenols
 
phenolic ether
 
aldehydes therapeutic properties
 
ketones
 
acids
 
esters therapeutic properties
 
lactones, coumarins, furocoumarins
 
oxides
 
 

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