Solubility of the sesquiterpene alcohol patchoulol in supercritical carbon dioxide.

The solubility of the sesquiterpene alcohol patchoulol in supercritical carbon dioxide was measured at P ranging from 10.0 MPa to 25.0 MPa and T of 40.0 and 50.0 °C using a simple microsampling type apparatus with a 100.5 µL sample loop to remove aliquots for off-line analysis. The system was first validated using vanillin with off-line spectrophotometric analysis, then utilized for patchoulol measurements with off-line GC-MS analysis. The measured solubility of patchoulol in supercritical CO(2) ranged from mole fractions of 0.43 × 10(-3) at 10.0 MPa and 50.0 °C to 9.45 × 10(-3) at 25.0 MPa and 40.0 °C.