“…For example, the reaction of ethane-l,2-dithiolfacetaldehyde/H2S gives rise to 2-methyl-l,3-dithiolane (13) and 3-methyl-l,2,4-trithiane (11) (Tressl et al, 1983). Further examples of Figure 2.1 compounds arising from Maillard type reactions are thiazole (19) from cysteine/pyruvaldehyde (Kato et al, 1973), 2,4,5-trimethyloxazole ~) from cysteine/butanedione (Ho and Hartman, 1982), thiophene-2-carboxaldehyde (ll) (Scanlan et al, 1973), 3-methyl-l,2,4-trithiane (11) and thialdine @) (de Rijke et al, 1981) from cysteine/glucose; 3-methyl-l,2,4-trithiane (11) and 2,4-dimethyl-5-ethylthiazole (W from cysteine/cystine-ribose (Mulders, 1973), 2-methylfuran-3-thiol (1), 2-methyl-3-(methylthio)furan (~ and 2,4-dimethyl-5-ethylthiazole (21) from cysteine/ribose Farmer et ai., 1989;Mottram and Salter, 1989;; Mottram and Leseigneur, 1990), methional (1) and 2-methyl-3-(methylthio)furan (H) from methionine/reducing sugar (Tressl et ai., 1989) and the 2-and 3methylcyclopentanones (~, ~) from cyclotene/H2S/NH3 reaction (Nishimura et al, 1980).…”