The mustard oil of rape seed, allylcarbinyl isothiocyanate, and synthetic isomers

MG Ettlinger, JE Hodgkins

Index: Ettlinger; Hodgkins Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1955 , vol. 77, p. 1831,1834

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Citation Number: 58

Abstract

The seed of rape (Brassica napus L.; in French, colza) furnishes on maceration a five-carbon unsaturated isothiocyanate,'liberated enzymatically, a higher homolog of the oil allyl isothiocyanate of black mustard (Brassica nigra). The precursor, named gluconapin, 2 has not been isolated in pure condition but presumably resembles sinigrin, the glucoside of allyl isothiocyanate. Interest in the mustard oil of rape originated from its supposed toxicity to ...