Novel route to a fruitful mixture of terpene fragrances in particular phellandrene starting from natural feedstock geraniol using weak acidic boron based catalyst

M Eisenacher, S Beschnitt, W Hölderich

Index: Eisenacher, Matthias; Beschnitt, Stefan; Hoelderich, Wolfgang Catalysis Communications, 2012 , vol. 26, p. 214 - 217

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Abstract

Myrcene, ocimene and in particular phellandrene were selectively generated as products by dehydration of the natural feedstock geraniol over a weak acidic boron pentasil zeolite catalyst in a gas phase reaction. Additionally linalool was formed by rearrangement reaction. The total selectivity of these 4 terpenes is up to 99%.