PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - P. De Smedt
AU  - P. A. P. Liddle
TI  - Identification of 1,1'-Diethoxypropan-2-One in Spirits Aged in Wood
AID  - 10.5344/ajev.1978.29.4.286
DP  - 1978 Jan 01
TA  - American Journal of Enology and Viticulture
PG  - 286--288
VI  - 29
IP  - 4
4099  - http://www.ajevonline.org/content/29/4/286.short
4100  - http://www.ajevonline.org/content/29/4/286.full
SO  - Am J Enol Vitic.1978 Jan 01; 29
AB  - Routine analysis of large number of different spirits, by gas-liquid chromatography of their carbon disulfide extracts, has shown that those aged in wood contain, in addition to compounds already identified as derived from the aging process, significant amounts of 1,1'-diethoxypropan-2-one. The latter compound was identified by comparison of its mass spectrum and GC retention time with those of an authentic sample, and was present in higher concentrations than the oak lactones (cis and trans β-methyl-γ-octalactone) in Cognac.