@article{
author = "Raičević, Vidak and Mladenović, Marko and Aćimović, Milica and Radulović, Niko",
year = "2023",
abstract = "Elder (Sambucus nigra L.) has relevance for the food, fragrance and pharmaceutical industries. Flowers of this species emit a very pleasant scent; for processing purposes, inflorescences are either collected from the wild or harvested from a cultivated crop. The study of elderflower-derived volatiles bears both phytochemical and commercial importance. Three samples of dry elderflower essential oil obtained from laboratory-scale hydrodistillations were analyzed. By use of gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, synthesis and NMR studies of chromatographic fractions of a distillation water extract prepared in a semi-industrial scale steam distillation, 252 constituents of the oil were identified; 115 compounds were not previously reported as elderflower volatiles, seven of which were new natural esters. Particularly interesting were those of isosenecioic (3-methylbut-3-enoic) acid because these were never before found in the plant kingdom. With these identifications, the known essential oil constituents accounted for 89.0–93.0% of the analyzed samples. Although the number of known S. nigra flower-derived volatiles is now quite high, further research is needed to unveil all of the relevant contributions to the unique odor of elderflowers.",
publisher = "Wiley",
journal = "Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture",
title = "New esters from the essential oil of dry flowers of elder (Sambucus nigra L.)",
doi = "10.1002/jsfa.13012"
}