Abstract

This paper describes the first application of NMR spectroscopy and LC-NMR/MS to the direct analysis of the aromatic composition of beer, grape juice and a wine phenolic extract. 1 H NMR spectroscopy provides non-invasive information on the overall aromatic profile and enables the identification of some compounds. However, a more comprehensive assignment is hindered by the low peak intensity and strong signal overlap in the low-field spectral region, as well as by the inherent lack of scalar coupling information for many aromatic compounds present. LC-NMR/MS can overcome these problems and is shown to aid significantly in the identification of aromatic compounds composing all samples analyzed. Some examples are the identification of several cinnamic acids (e.g. p-coumaric, trans-coutaric and trans-caftaric) in grape juice, the identification of 2-phenylethanol, tyrosol and tryptophol in beer and the detection of phenolics such as catechin, epicatechin, trans-resveratrol, tyrosol and caffeic acid in the wine extract.

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