The holiday season is full of delicious treats. Aside from rum spiked eggnog, candy canes, fruitcake, shortbread and cranberry sauce, one of my favorite Christmas treats is gingerbread. Whether you enjoy biting the limbs off a gingerbread man or munching on the roof of a gingerbread house, you cannot escape the wonderful aroma and flavor of ginger and cinnamon. These fragrant spices can be easily examined by NMR spectroscopy. The figure below shows the 600 MHz 1H NMR spectra of CDCl3 extracts of ground ginger (top) and ground cinnamon (bottom).
The main constituents of these extracts are 6-gingerol and cinnamaldehyde for the ginger and cinnamon extracts, respectively. Think of these compounds and their NMR spectra while you bite the head off your next gingerbread man in front of your beautifully decorated Christmas tree. Merry Christmas!
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Evaluating the Reduced Hydrophobic Taste Sensor Response of Dipeptides by Theasinensin A by Using NMR and Quantum Mechanical Analyses.
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One of my fondest memories as a child is the colorful lights and especially the smell of a decorated Christmas tree. The hot incandescent lights used years ago would heat up the tree evaporating the fragrant compounds in the needles producing the very memorable and wonderful smell of Christmas. Although modern artificial Christmas trees and cool LED lights have made the holiday season safer with respect to fires, they have taken much of the magic out of Christmas. Among many other compounds, it is pinene, bornyl acetate and citronellol that contribute to the...
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Dear Colleagues,
You are cordially invited to attend two magnetic resonance meetings in London, UK, December 11 and 12, 2012. Meetings are organized by the UK Institute of Physics BRSG: the Magnetic Resonance Group, and by the UK Royal Society of Chemistry NMR Discussion Group (NMRDG). Both meetings will appeal to anyone interested in general or solid-state NMR. Please follow the links below for more information and to register,
With kind regards,
Stephen J. Byard - UK NMR DG Secretary
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To 227 g of softened butter, 65 g of fructose was added while stirring with a spatula. Slowly, 199 g of flour and 1.26 g of sodium chloride were stirred into the mixture until it became difficult to mix with a spatula. The mixture was kneaded gently until cracks...
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NMR and the Taste of Christmas - Gingerbread
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