Process for preparation of ajoene

US5741932A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Consortium für elektrochemische Industrie GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Guenter Dressnandt · Hersbruck, DE
• Heinz Rockinger · Gilching, DE
• Helmut Prigge · Wolfratshausen, DE
• Arno Treiber · Hersbruck, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 13, 1995
• Grant date: Apr 21, 1998
• Expiry date: Nov 13, 2015

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C08B37/0015
• WIPO field: Organic fine chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A process for the preparation of ajoene using cyclodextrin comprising mixing allicin, where appropriate dissolved in water and/or a water-miscible solvent, with .alpha.-cyclodextrin, .beta.-cyclodextrin, .gamma.-cyclodextrin or any desired mixture of these cyclodextrins; and processing to a water-containing composition; drying this composition; and obtaining the resulting ajoene by decomplexation and extraction from the dried composition.