Journal
JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY
Volume 64, Issue 47, Pages 9033-9040Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.6b03938
Keywords
disulfane and trisulfane; wine minerality; flint odor; bis(methyldiphenylsilane) disulfane
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Through the accidental contamination of a gas cylinder of H2S, the importance of polysulfanes for flint, gun powder, and match odors was discovered. The hydrogen disulfane was prepared from disulfanediylbis[methyl(diphenyl)silane], and its odor descriptor was evaluated in the gas phase from a gas chromatograph coupled to an olfaction port. The occurrence of this compound in flint and pebbles was confirmed by analyses after derivatization with pentafluorobromobenzene. The occurrence of this sulfane was also confirmed in two dry white Swiss Chasselas wines, sorted by a large-scale sensory analysis from 80 bottles and evaluated by 62 wine professionals. The occurrence of disulfane was confirmed for the two wines described as the most mineral. Polysulfane comprises a class of compounds contributing to the flint odor and that may contribute to the wine mineral odor descriptor. Due to the high volatility and instability pure HSSH was not isolated but kept in solution and its odor profile was described by gas chromatography coupled to an olfaction port as flint, matches, and fireworks with a higher odor intensity compared to H2S.
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