Constituents of Cane Molasses

By gas chromatography the following eight phenolic compounds and benzoic acid were identified from a sample of cane final molasses using both polar and non-polar stationary phases: anisole, phenetole, phenol, m-cresol, salicylic acid, resorcinol, vanillic acid, and syringic acid. The peaks corresponding to p-coumaric acid and vanillin were also found using non-polar phase. The structures of four or five unidentified components were inferred from the relation between retention temperature and functional group number of the phenolic compounds.