Chromatography of Aroma Compounds and Fragrances

1. Front Matter

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2. Chromatography of Aroma Substances and Fragrances

   • Tibor Cserháti

   Pages 1-11

3. Food and Food Products

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   Pages 13-268

4. Essential Oils

   • Tibor Cserháti

   Pages 269-315

5. Biological Effect

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6. Environmental Pollution

   • Tibor Cserháti

   Pages 345-382

7. Back Matter

   Pages 383-389

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The quantity and composition of aroma and avour compounds in foods and food products exert a marked in uence on the consumer acceptance and, consequently, on the commercial value of the products. It has been established many times that one of the main properties employed for the evaluation of the product quality is the avour, that is, an adequate avour composition considerably enhances the m- ketability. Traditional analytical methods are generally unsuitable for the accurate determination of the quantity of this class of compounds. Moreover, they do not contain any useful information on the concentration of the individual substances and they are not suitable for their identi cation. As the stability of the aroma compounds and fragrances against hydrolysis, oxidation and other environmental and tech- logical conditions shows marked differences, the exact determination of the avour composition of a food or food product may help for the prediction of the she- life of products and the assessment of the in uence of technological steps on the aroma compounds resulting in more consumer-friendly processing methods. Furthermore, the qualitative determination and identi cation of these substances may contribute to the establishment of the provenance of the product facilitating the authenticity test. Because of the considerable commercial importance of avour composition, much effort has been devoted to the development of methods suitable for the separation and quantitative determination of avour compounds and f- grancesinfoodsandinotherindustrialproducts.

• aroma compounds
• chromatography
• environmental pollution
• food
• fragrances
• pollution

From the reviews:

“It explains how aroma compounds and fragrances are analyzed with chromatography. Designed to help scientists decide on the appropriate method, it compares the various choices and offers extensive data tables.” (American Herb Association Quarterly, Vol. 25 (4), 2011)

“If you are in the field of smells and taints, both pleasant and unpleasant, and have not the time or inclination to search the literature then this would be a useful book to have as a reference.” (Edward R. Adlard, Chromatographia, Vol. 73, 2011)

• Chemical Research Centre, MTA Budapest, Budapest, Hungary

  Tibor Cserháti

Tibor Cserháti was born 1938 in Hungary. Graduated at the Chemi- cal Engineering Faculty of the Technical University of Budapest, 1962. Postgraduate training in instrumental analytical chemistry 1965-1966. Dr. degree at the same University in 1968. Ph.D. (Can- didate) degree in 1973. Research fellow at the Dairy Research Institute (1965-1973). Senior research scientist at the Plant Protection Institute of Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1975-1988). From 1989 scientific counsellor at the Institute of Che- mistry, Chemical Research Centre, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The Dr.Sc. degree was awarded by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1988.

Dr.Cserháti is author or coauthor of six books and more than 490 scientific papers dealing with the separation and quantitative determination of bioactive compounds and xenobiotics by using various chromatographic techniques such as thin-layer chromatography, gas-liquid chromatography and high-performance liquid chromatography.

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