Robert Q. Thompson
Sep 1, 2015
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foodchem.2015.02.131 0308-8146/ 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Dear Sir, Researchers analyzing foods containing capsaicinoids continue to perpetuate errors, most notably for the compound homocapsaicin, errors that I attempted to correct with my 2006 paper: ‘‘Homocapsaicin: nomenclature, indexing, and identification’’, Flavour and Fragrance Journal 2007, 22, 243–248. The three homocapsaicin isomers mentioned in the literature are listed in the table below. Research on the capsaicinoids continues to be very active: nearly 3600 citations that mentioned capsaicin or capsaicinoids were published between the years 2012 and 2014 (SciFinder search). Thirteen patents and papers in English mentioned the minor capsaicinoid homocapsaicin. Of the six references that described or depicted a structure for homocapsaicin, NONE gave the structure of one of the two known, naturally-occurring