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The First Pro-Fragrance Delivery System Based on a Vitamin Scaffold
A Paradigm Shift in Delivery
VitaScents release in the presence of neutral water – including sweat or moisture in the air – and can be synthesized in high yields in one step from vitamin B6 without waste, byproducts, or purification.
Other pro-fragrances can have significant degradation.
The system shows complete fidelity releasing the desired alcohol in the presence of neutral water.
Instead of relying on evaporation rates, the VitaScents delivery system chemically bonds the fragrance to safe, abundant, and bio-renewable vitamin B6.
Slow Release Technology
Vitamin-based acetals function as water-triggered pro-fragrances.
Acetal releases the alcohol for over 10 hours in pure water.
Release leaves only safe, natural vitamin and fragrance after cleavage.
Longer lasting fragrance is not dictated by vaporization rates.
Safe, inexpensive Alternative to encapsulation
Customers desire safe, natural, environmentally-benign products, particularly when applied to the skin or hair.
Current methods of fragrance delivery are based on encapsulation technologies, using waxes, gels, or emulsions to deliver fragrances.
VitaScents is the one of only two water-triggered pro-fragrances. (The other is a carcinogenic and expensive ionic liquid system.)
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Gregory Boyce, Ph.D
Dr. Boyce as an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Physics at Florida Gulf Coast University where he conducts research in Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Pro-Fragrances, and Natural Product Synthesis.
Education
—Ph.D. in Synthetic Organic Chemistry; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 2011
—ACS-Certified B.S. in Chemistry; Emory University, Atlanta, GA 2006
Recent Grants
—ACS-PRF New Directions, 2020
—NSF-MRI for Acquisition of a Single Crystal X-Ray Diffractometer, 2019
—NSF-MRI for Acquisition of 400 MHz NMR, 2015
For more information contact Ray Wheatley, MS, CLP at (214) 914-9659.
Or send him an email at ray@apioix.com.
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