& A PREVIOUS COMMUNICATION (1) we have reported that vanillin reacts with a large number of organic compounds with a carbonyl group, with aldehydes, and particularly with ketones, diketones, and ketonic acids to produce yellowish, or yellowish-red color complexes. Because of its wide reactivity the vanillin-alkali reagent cannot be used for any specific carbonyl compound unless it is first sepa...

In the title compound, [Ni(C(8)H(7)O(3))(NO(3))(C(12)H(12)N(2))(2)], the asymmetric unit contains a Ni(II) atom, two mol-ecules of 2-(benzyl-amino)pyridine, a mol-ecule of deprotonated o-vanillin (3-methoxy-salicylaldehydate) and a bidentate nitrate anion. The Ni(II) center is six-coordinated by two pyridine N atoms from 2-(benzyl-amino)pyridine, two O atoms from o-vanillin and two O atoms from...

A simple, reliable and reproducible method, based on capillary electrophoresis (CE) with electrochemical detection (ED), for the determination of five active ingredients and three carbohydrates in extracts of Gastrodia rhizoma is described in this work. The main active ingredients are gastrodin, 4-hydroxybenzyl alcohol, vanillyl alcohol, 4-hydroxybenzylaldehyde and vanillin. Operated in a wall-...

The metabolomic analysis of developing Vanilla planifolia green pods (between 3 and 8 months after pollination) was carried out by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and multivariate data analysis. Multivariate data analysis of the (1)H NMR spectra, such as principal component analysis (PCA) and partial least-squares-discriminant analysis (PLS-DA), showed a trend of separation of tho...

BACKGROUND The conversion of vanillin to vanillylamine is a key step in the biosynthetic route towards capsaicinoids in pungent cultivars of Capsicum sp. The reaction has previously been annotated to be catalysed by PAMT (putative aminotransferase; [GenBank: AAC78480.1, Swiss-Prot: O82521]), however, the enzyme has previously not been biochemically characterised in vitro. RESULTS The biochemi...

Epoxy thermosets were prepared from mixtures of phenolics modelling the product stream of the ligninto-vanillin process. Vanillin is one of the only mono-aromatic compounds produced on an industrial scale from lignin. This process leads to mixtures of phenolic compounds. Isolation of pure vanillin is costly both economically and environmentally. The present work demonstrates that these purifica...

A single-step selective separation of two food additives was investigated using alcohol-salt aqueous two-phase systems (ATPS). The selective partitioning of two of the most used additives from a processed food waste material, vanillin and l-ascorbic acid, was successfully accomplished. The results obtained prove that alcohol-salt ATPS can be easily applied as cheaper processes for the selective...