Petroleum ether (40-60°C; 95%) was purchased from Acros Organics (Geel, Belgium). 2,3-Hexanedione (94%) and 2,4,5-trimethyl oxazole (97%) were obtained from Alfa Aesar (Karlsruhe, Germany).
Benzaldehyde (99%) and
hydrogen peroxide (30%) were obtained from AppliChem (Darmstadt, Germany).
Acetic acid (100%), chloroform-d (99.8 atom% D, with 0.03 vol% TMS, stabilized with Ag),
diethyl ether (99.5%), iron(II) sulphate heptahydrate (99.5%), sodium carbonate decahydrate (98%), sodium sulphate (p.a.) and
sulfuric acid (96%) were purchased from Carl Roth (Karlsruhe, Germany). Pentanal (97%) was obtained from Fisher Scientific (Darmstadt, Germany),
Silica gel 60 was purchased from Macherey-Nagel (Düren, Germany) and
2,3-butanedione (97%) from Merck (Darmstadt, Germany).
Acetoin (96%),
2,3-pentanedione (97%),
2,3,5,6-tetramethylpyrazine (98%) and
2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (99%) were purchased from Sigma-Aldrich (Taufkirchen, Germany). 5-Ethyl-2,3-dimethylpyrazine (98%) was obtained from TCI (Eschborn, Germany). Butanal (97%) and propanal (97%) were purchased from Th. Geyer (Renningen, Germany) and
ethyl acetate (98%) from VWR (Darmstadt, Germany).
Helium (5.0) was obtained from Praxair (Düsseldorf, Germany) and nitrogen (5.0) from Air Liquide (Düsseldorf, Germany). All numbers given in parentheses represent the minimum purity.
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