Alpha Phellandrene 80%

Specifications

Product                                    Alpha Phellandrene 80%  

Appearance                             Liquid

Colour                                      Colourless - Pale Yellow

Odour                                      Citric, Spicy.

Physico-Chemical Properties: -

Density                                    0.827 – 0.847                            0.836

Refractive Index                     1.465 – 1.485                            1.472

Alpha Phellandrene (%)        Min 75 %                                   80.00 %  

Phellandrene belongs to those hydrocarbons C10H16 that are widely distributed. In nature it occurs in several modifications. According to Wallach1), phellandrene is defined as "a hydrocarbon C10H16, which when brought into contact with N203 in an in-different, non aqueous solvent (ligroin) at a temperature below 0° - hence under conditions that exclude inversion as much as possible - yields at once a well characterized nitrite".

The phellandrenes belong to the least stable of the terpenes. Hence, when it is desired to isolate phellandrene from a volatile oil or to identify it, the oil should not be distilled repeatedly under ordinary pressure, but should be fractionated under diminished pressure.