The Detection of Benzyl Ether Added to Lemon Oil

摘要

SUMMARYAnalysis of a commercial sample purported to be cold‐pressed lemon oil, USP, revealed anomalies in both the ultraviolet spectrum and the gas chromatogram. A chemical not natural to lemon was isolated by preparative gas‐liquid chromatography and shown to be benzyl ether by nuclear magnetic resonance and infrared spectrosc