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Eugenol Oil is the main component in Clove Oil. You can buy Clove Oil through health food stores and online. It is an essential oil from the clove herb. NOTE: It can be TOXIC in large amounts so please do research on whatever it is you are looking to use it for.
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What is the essential oil in clove?
eugenol
Can eugenol oil be used to kill roaches?
yes it kills roaches and bed bugs
What is the solvent of eugenol?
Eugenol is practically insoluble in water; it is hydrophobic.
Why would the steam distillation of a mixture of vanillin and eugenol result in the distillation of eugenol only?
Because is and esential oil and these are not soluble on water and volatile enough to be distilled by steam, when you use steam distillation you do the extraction step and the purification step in one technique.
Write equation for reaction of eugenol with sodium hydroxide and explain why the product is soluble in water?
Eugenol acts as an acid, NaOH acts as the base. NaOH strips a proton from eugenol, forming a salt, Na(eugenol(minus)H) and water.
Why is eugenol used in most men's fragrances?
Eugenol is a constituent of essential oils (lavender, rosemary, etc.) which are sometimes used to create cologne/perfume. So either the eugenol is just a part of the essential oils used to create the fragrance, or the eugenol is added as a preservative.
Is clove oil an acid?
Clove oil is a mixture of compounds, but the main ingredient is eugenol, about 70-90%. Eugenol does have an acidic hydrogen, but it's not a compound i would call an acid, the acidic hydrogen is only a small part of the entire molecule. it's pKa, measure of acidity, is about 10, so it's a very weak acid indeed.
Is eugenol chiral?
Eugenol is not chiral because it contains no assymmetric carbons. (carbons with 4 different groups attached to it)
Equation for eugenol and NaOH?
NaOH strips the proton from eugenol giving the oxygen on eugenol a negative charge, a sodium cation, and water
What is the concentration of eugenol in toothache drops?
85%
Which tobacco products contain eugenol?
cigars.
What is the pKa of eugenol?
10.19 at 25 degrees Celsius
