46 REPORT OF SCHIMMEL & Co. APRIL 1914. 
formic acid sesquicitronellene may be inverted into a cyclic sesquiterpene (cyclosesqui- 
citronellene). The inverted sesquiterpene can be no further reduced with sodium and 
alcohol, which fact leads the authors to assume that the ring-formation has been 
effected by the aid of one of the double-bonds, the conjugation being suspended. 
Upon ozonising the sesquiterpene-fraction, after washing it out with alcohol, a paraffin 
CooHsg was isolated from the ozonide decomposition-products. It is still doubtful 
whether this paraffin is a natural constituent of citronella oil, or whether it had got 
into the oil by sophistication, say with petroleum’). 
By reacting with sodium upon the sesquiterpene fraction which had been washed 
out with alcohol and distilling off the hydrocarbons, a tertiary, doubly-unsaturated 
sesquiterpene alcohol, Ci;H2».O, was obtained. 
In the course of preparing geraniol from Ceylon citronella oil, F. Elze*) has 
obtained a small yield of a fraction boiling between 150 and 165° (5 mm.) from which, 
after saponification and steam-distillation (a considerable proportion being lost in the 
manipulation), he obtained an oil which, after being treated with phthalic anhydride 
and the phthalate being worked up in the usual manner, afforded farnesol. The alcohol 
possessed the following constants: b.p. 145 to 146° (6 mm.), dis0 0,895, &p inactive. 
It occurs in the oil both in the free and in the esterified state, the proportion being 
from 0;2 to 0,3:p.c. 
Clove Oil. However much the reports received may differ according to the mood 
of their authors, the fact remains that the 1913/14 crop may be described as a plentiful 
one, the average estimate of the yield being 185000 bales. The market has accordingly 
continued to show a falling tendency, which was confirmed by the very reserved atti- 
tude of consumers. A few weeks ago, however, the movement of retrogression came 
to a standstill. Numerous speculators who were “discounting the fall” had sold con- 
siderable quantities in London and other centres of the trade for future shipment, and 
as these operators are now forced to cover themselves the sellers have withdrawn — 
from the market or have advanced their quotations accordingly, while they are every- 
where trying to engineer a bullish feeling. The tendency is made firmer still by the 
report that the result of the summer crop of 1914 will only be very moderate. The 
estimates vary from 50000 to 100000 bales. 
According to the statements of our informants the exports from Zanzibar and 
Pemba between 1st August 1913 and 18 March 1914 amounted to about 165000 bales, 
of which were shipped : 
to Europe about 49000 bales 
» America i 19000 , 
» Bombay 2 O0.000 te. 
to other Ports. ~,, FAULT 
Total about 135000 bales, while 30000 bales have 
been put in warehouse in Zanzibar, it is said for account of some important specu- 
lators at Bombay. 
The stocks in Europe and America, which as a rule increase considerably at this 
time of the year, especially after a satisfactory crop, are now on the other hand con- 
tracting, and may even be called very small. Moreover, it is said that almost the 
1) Comp: Report April 1918, 46. — 2%) Chem. Ztg. 87 (1913), 1422. 
Peis 3. 
