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Originally Posted by ChemMan
Purely from a synthesis standpoint, if you are trying to maintain the length of the molecule but get rid of the db, you can hit it with H2 and a transition metal catalyst like Pt or Pd. It will change the bond angle from 180 deg to 109.5 deg. What effect that will have on the taste receptors I have no idea. DB can also be cleaved using O3 and dimethyl sulfide......just thoughts  |
Yeah, but both of those things would render the rest of the pepper somewhat inedible, right?
I think that the ozone treatment might work on the aryl group too, but I doubt the metal catalyst/hydrogen treatment would do much there. And IIRC, platinum is a little more gentle than palladium.