The IV Meeting of PhD Students in Environment and Agriculture took place on 11 and 12 November at the Pólo da Mitra of the University of Évora. On the occasion, the researcher and PhD student Bruno Moreira-Leite gave an oral presentation on the methodology used for the optimization of the extractions of volatile compounds, entitled "Response Surface Methodology as an Optimization Tool in the Analysis of Seaweeds’ Volatile Organic Compounds".
For this study, the alga "pepper dulse" (Osmundea pinnatifida), the most aromatic of all studied, was analyzed by gas chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry (GC-MS), being identified a total of 61 compounds, of which 26 aldehydes, 14 ketones, 5 alcohols, 4 carboxylic acids, 4 hydrocarbons, 4 ethers, 2 diverse functional groups, 1 ester and 1 phenol.
To view the presentation slides, click here.