Essential Oil Chemistry Links

As primers and resources for students taking the Essential Chemistry course as part of the Shirley Price Aromatherapy Diploma I recommend the following educational links to students

ANALYSIS
An online database of essential oil components based on the extensive analysis of Dr Pappas
www.essentialoils.org
Signup with your email address and details and then access to the database is free.  This database has a particularly useful feature in that you can search by essential oil component and find the % analysis in the various oils Dr Pappas has analysed.

BLENDING
We recommend that students acquire Caddy Software and resources
http://www.ccprofiles.co.uk/aromatherapy-software-books.htm
Based on a well researched database of typical essential oil components the software allows the user to construct a blend and view its overall chemical characteristics by functional family. Blends can then be printed off for record purposes.  This is useful both as an educational tool and a practitioner tool.

ORGANIC CHEMISTRY PRIMER VIDEOS
Aromatic compounds
Naming benzene derivatives
Naming benzene
BACKGROUND
There are a number of useful videos to review before taking the course.
Playlist
Representing structure of organic molecules

Naming simple alkanes
Naming alkanes with alkyl groups
Cis-trans and naming E-Z alkanes
Cis-trans, E-Z naming examples
Alcohols
Chirality
Chiral examples
MORE Fluency in naming
Naming simple alkenes
Naming examples 1
Naming examples 2
Naming examples 3
Naming examples 5
Isomers
MORE
Electronegativity and reactions
Ether naming
Aldehyde naming
Ester formation
Ketone naming
MORE
Electronegativity
Electronegativity and intermolecular forces

Background Anatomy and Physiology
Human Biology
MORE
The sensory system
A tour of the cell
Structure of the cell
The endocrine system
The nervous system
Sympathetic nervous system Fight or flight
Respiratory system
The circulatory system
The digestive system
The immune system
Life
Viruses
Bacteria
Funghi
Plants
Plant structure
Plants nutrition
Water potential
Acids, bases, ph
Proteins
Lipids
Cell membranes
The cell membrane
Transport across cell membrane
Documentary on Intelligence of plants
Documentary on Human intelligence
Animals
Pathology
What is cancer
DNA
ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE
The evidence
Documentary on Acupuncture science

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