Cinnamyl alcohol – Knowledge and References

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Monographs of fragrance chemicals and extracts that have caused contact allergy / allergic contact dermatitis

Published in Anton C. de Groot, Monographs in Contact Allergy, 2021

Cinnamyl alcohol is a constituent of the fragrance mix I. In groups of patients reacting to the mix and tested with its 8 ingredients, cinnamyl alcohol scored 1.7–42.1% positive patch test reactions, median 11.1% and average 15.2%. It has rank number 4/5/6 (with hydroxycitronellal and eugenol) in the list of most frequent reactors in the mix (see Chapter 3.70 Fragrance mix I).

Rhodiosin and herbacetin in Rhodiola rosea preparations: additional markers for quality control?

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Published in Pharmaceutical Biology, 2019

Zoltán Péter Zomborszki, Norbert Kúsz, Dezső Csupor, Wieland Peschel

Other constituents of Rhodiola species have occasionally been suggested to potentially contribute to pharmacological activities including the aglycon of the phenylpropenoids cinnamyl alcohol (CA) (Peschel et al. 2016), monoterpene glycosides such as rosiridin (van Diermen et al. 2009), gallic acid derivatives such as epigallocatechin-3-gallate (Chen et al. 2015) or lignans and some flavonoids including rhodiosin (1) (Zhou et al. 2015).