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AssigneesVolare & Connecting, LLC, Giovanni GASPERONI
InventorsIrene BASSANETTI, Mauro CARCELLI, Giuliano LEONARDI, Paolo PELAGATTI, Dominga ROGOLINO
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Compounds are described which are derivatives of essential oils, functionalized in order to improve their antibacterial, antiprotozoal and antiviral activity, reduce their volatility and modify their solubility in certain solvents, particularly water. Additionally, also the palatability has been significantly improved with respect to the starting essential oils. These compounds are designed 5 to be used as food ingredients in food products for nutritional purposes and extra-nutritional (as prebiotics) purposes, in both human and animal feed industries, even if these compounds can be successfully used also in cosmetics, detergents and for the control of the microbial load in general.
A compound of formula A-O—R, wherein A-O— is a moiety of an essential oil active ingredient, said active ingredient having a functional group —OH, and R is a moiety of formula R1(CO)— or formula A-O—(CO)—R2—(CO)—, where R1 is a saturated or unsaturated alkyl chain C4-C22 and R2 is a saturated or unsaturated alkyl chain C1-C6.
A sulfonate of menthol, thymol, eugenol, geraniol, vanillin, carvacrol, nerolidol, ethyl maltol, furaneol, 1-hexanol, 3-hexen-1-ol, linalool, alpha-santalol, nerol, terpineol, borneol, farnesol, citronellol, myrtenol, coumaric acid, para-hydroxybenzoic acid, gallic acid, protocatechuic acid, syringic acid, gentisic acid, caffeic acid, ferulic acid, sinapic acid, or methyl salicylate, or a salt thereof.
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