Essential Oils and Aromatic Plants: Proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on Essential Oils, held in Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands, July 19–21, 1984

Quantitative aspects of flavour analysis by equilibrium and dynamic headspace gas chromatography with capillary columns.- Quantitative headspace gas chromatography in the analysis of volatile oils and aromatic plants.- Concentration of odorous headspace volatiles.- Sensory evaluation of flavour and fragrance compounds after headspace sampling, capillary chromatography and thermal conductivity detection.- GLC of the headspace after concentration on Tenax GC and of the essential oils of apples, fresh celery, fresh lovage, honeysuckle and ginger powder.- Headspace technique as a versatile complementary tool to increase knowledge about constituents of domestic or exotic flowers and fruits.- Handling, quick optimization and choice of column wall material in capillary gas chromatography.- Gas Chromatographic characterization of frequently occurring sesquiterpenes in essential oils.- Progress in isolation techniques for essential oil constituents.- The influence of isolation conditions on the composition of essential oils containing linalool and linalyl acetate.- Determination of the enantiomeric composition of natural flavouring agents by 1H-NMR spectroscopy.- Determination of the enantiomeric composition of synthetic flavouring agents by 1H-NMR spectroscopy.- Constituents of the essential oil of Salvia stenophylla — first identification of (+)-epi-?-bisabolol in nature.- GC-MS analysis of the essential oil of Meriandra benghalensis.- Essential oils of Israeli wild species of Labiatae.- Studies on the composition of essential oils of ‘cineolic eucalyptus’.- Biology and essential oil of Humulus lupulus var. neomexicanus.- Sesquiterpenes and other volatile metabolites from liquid cultures of ceratocystis populina (Ascomycota) — Essential oil compounds from fungi.-Effect of drying and freeze-drying on the aroma of dill — Anethum graveolens CV mammut.- Differences in the yield of plant material, essential oils and their main components during the life cycle of Origanum vulgare L..- Comparative studies on growth and volatile oil contents of some induced mutants of Origanum majorana.- Formation of essential oil in clary sage under different conditions.- Influence of ecological factors on the content and composition of the essential oil in Salvia officinalis.- Composition of the essential oil of Origanum majorana grown in different localities in Turkey.- Composition and antimicrobial activity of the essential oil of Ducrosia anethifolia.- Effects and side-effects of essential oils.- Arzneipflanzen im Spiegel niederländischer Malerei.