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Citronellal or rhodinal or 3,7-dimethyloct-6-en-1-al (C
Carbon

Carbon is a chemical element with chemical symbol C and atomic number 6. As a member of group 14 on the periodic table, it is nonmetallic and tetravalence?making four electrons available to form covalent bond chemical bonds....
10H
Hydrogen

Hydrogen is the chemical element with atomic number 1. It is represented by the chemical symbol H. At standard temperature and pressure, hydrogen is a colorless, odorless, nonmetallic, tasteless, highly combustion and explosive Diatomic molecule gas with the molecular formula H2....
18O
Oxygen

Oxygen no O2 produced; 2) O2 produced, but absorbed in oceans & seabed rock; 3) O2 starts to gas out of the oceans, but is absorbed by land surfaces and formation of ozone layer; 4-5) O2 sinks filled and the gas accumulates]]...
) is a monoterpenoid
Terpenoid

The terpenoids , sometimes called isoprenoids, are a large and diverse class of naturally-occurring organic compound similar to terpenes, derived from five-carbon isoprene units assembled and modified in thousands of ways....
, the main component in the mixture of terpenoid chemical compound
Chemical compound

A chemical compound is a Chemical substance consisting of two or more different chemical element Chemical bond together in a fixed mass ratio that can be split into simpler substances....
s that give citronella oil
Citronella oil

Citronella oil is one of the essential oils obtained from the leaves and stems of different species of Cymbopogon. The oil is used extensively as a source of perfumery chemicals such as citronellal, citronellol and geraniol....
 its distinctive lemon scent.

Citronellal is a major isolate
Isolate

Isolate may refer to:* Isolate , the second full-length studio album by Circus Maximus* Isolate , an isolated computation in the Java Application Isolation API...
 in distilled oils from the plants Cymbopogon
Cymbopogon

Cymbopogon is a genus of about 55 species of Poaceae, native to warm temperate and tropical regions of the Old World and Oceania. It is a tall perennial plant grass....
, lemon-scented gum, and lemon-scented teatree
Leptospermum petersonii

Leptospermum petersonii , lemon-scented teatree is a tall shrub to small tree to 5 m which is cultivated as an ornamental and for essential oils....
.

Citronellal has insect repellent properties, and research shows high repellent effectiveness against mosquitoes.






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Citronellal or rhodinal or 3,7-dimethyloct-6-en-1-al (C
Carbon

Carbon is a chemical element with chemical symbol C and atomic number 6. As a member of group 14 on the periodic table, it is nonmetallic and tetravalence?making four electrons available to form covalent bond chemical bonds....
10H
Hydrogen

Hydrogen is the chemical element with atomic number 1. It is represented by the chemical symbol H. At standard temperature and pressure, hydrogen is a colorless, odorless, nonmetallic, tasteless, highly combustion and explosive Diatomic molecule gas with the molecular formula H2....
18O
Oxygen

Oxygen no O2 produced; 2) O2 produced, but absorbed in oceans & seabed rock; 3) O2 starts to gas out of the oceans, but is absorbed by land surfaces and formation of ozone layer; 4-5) O2 sinks filled and the gas accumulates]]...
) is a monoterpenoid
Terpenoid

The terpenoids , sometimes called isoprenoids, are a large and diverse class of naturally-occurring organic compound similar to terpenes, derived from five-carbon isoprene units assembled and modified in thousands of ways....
, the main component in the mixture of terpenoid chemical compound
Chemical compound

A chemical compound is a Chemical substance consisting of two or more different chemical element Chemical bond together in a fixed mass ratio that can be split into simpler substances....
s that give citronella oil
Citronella oil

Citronella oil is one of the essential oils obtained from the leaves and stems of different species of Cymbopogon. The oil is used extensively as a source of perfumery chemicals such as citronellal, citronellol and geraniol....
 its distinctive lemon scent.

Citronellal is a major isolate
Isolate

Isolate may refer to:* Isolate , the second full-length studio album by Circus Maximus* Isolate , an isolated computation in the Java Application Isolation API...
 in distilled oils from the plants Cymbopogon
Cymbopogon

Cymbopogon is a genus of about 55 species of Poaceae, native to warm temperate and tropical regions of the Old World and Oceania. It is a tall perennial plant grass....
, lemon-scented gum, and lemon-scented teatree
Leptospermum petersonii

Leptospermum petersonii , lemon-scented teatree is a tall shrub to small tree to 5 m which is cultivated as an ornamental and for essential oils....
.

Citronellal has insect repellent properties, and research shows high repellent effectiveness against mosquitoes. Research shows that citronellal has strong antifungal qualities.

See also

  • Citral
    Citral

    Citral, or 3,7-dimethyl-2,6-octadienal or lemonal, is either of a pair of terpenoids with the molecular formula Carbon10Hydrogen16Oxygen....
  • Citronellol
    Citronellol

    Citronellol, or dihydrogeraniol, is a natural acyclic terpenoid. Both enantiomers occur in nature. -Citronellol, which is found citronella oils, including Cymbopogon , is the more common isomer....
  • Geraniol
    Geraniol

    Geraniol is a terpenoid and an alcohol. It is the primary part of rose oil, palmarosa oil, and citronella oil . It also occurs in small quantities in Pelargonium, lemon, and many other essential oils....
  • Citronella oil
    Citronella oil

    Citronella oil is one of the essential oils obtained from the leaves and stems of different species of Cymbopogon. The oil is used extensively as a source of perfumery chemicals such as citronellal, citronellol and geraniol....