title: Chemical plants: high-value molecules from essential oils.
abstract: As society faces a future of dwindling petrochemical supplies at increasing cost, much attention has been focused on methods to degrade biomass into renewable commodity-chemical building blocks. Reported here is a powerful complementary approach that amplifies the complexity of molecular structures present in plant materials. Essential-oil phenylpropenoids are transformed via acrylate cross-metathesis into potent antioxidants that are widely used in perfumery and cosmetics, and in treating disorders associated with oxidative damage.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Centre for Catalysis Research & Innovation, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1N 6N5.
authors.forename: Justin A M
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Lummiss
authors.forename: Kelley C
authors.initials: KC
authors.lastname: Oliveira
authors.forename: Alexandre M T
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Pranckevicius
authors.forename: Alexandra G
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Santos
authors.forename: Eduardo N
authors.initials: EN
authors.lastname: dos Santos
authors.forename: Deryn E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Fogg
mesh_terms: D009822:Oils, Volatile / Q000737:chemistry*; D014835:Volatilization
chemical_list: D009822:Oils, Volatile