Tobacco fragrance inhaling taste revised medicine

摘要

PURPOSE: To obtain a tobacco aroma and flavor improver containing equinatin, capable of well harmonizable with aroma of tobacco and giving roundness to aroma and emphasizing tobacco-like taste and suppressed in irritation and stabilized in quality by adding a small amount of equinatin to tobacco. ;CONSTITUTION: This tobacco aroma and flavor improver contains equinatin expressed by formula I and isolated and purified or synthesized. Furthermore, the amount of the tobacco aroma and flavor improver added to the cut tobacco is 1-100ppm based on weight of cut tobacco and the compound of formula I is obtained by carrying out aldol condensation of 4-hydroxy-2- methoxybenzaldehyde of formula III obtained by using 3-methoxyphenol of formula II as a starting raw material with p-hydrocyanetophenone of the formula IV.;COPYRIGHT: (C)1997,JPO