Volatile acids of sun-cured greek Nicotiana tabacum

The volatile acids of sun-cured Greek tobacco have been studied. Examination of this material by GC-MS supplemented by other spectroscopic methods and in some instances by synthesis, has permitted the identification of nearly a hundred compounds. About half of them have not been encountered previously in tobacco or tobacco smoke, and the majority of the new compounds are straight and branched-chain unsaturated acids and aromatic acids. Five of the oxygenated acids are evidently seco- or nor-terpenoids.