Syringa vulgaris L. inflorescences were fed with aqueous solutions of regioselectively deuteratedcompounds assumed to be precursors of lilac aldehyde and lilac alcohol, respectively. Volatiles wereextracted by stir bar sorptive extraction (SBSE) and analyzed using enantioselective multidimensional
gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (enantio-MDGC/MS); deuterium-labeled lilac aldehydes andlilac alcohols were separated from unlabeled stereoisomers on a fused silica capillary column, coatedwith heptakis(2,3-di-
O-methyl-6-
O-
tert-butyldimethylsilyl)-
-cyclodextrin (DIME-
-CD) (30%) in SE 52(70%), as the chiral stationary phase. Feeding experiments with [5,5-
2H
2]mevalonic acid lactone
22and [5,5-
2H
2]deoxy-
D-xylose
23 indicate that the novel mevalonate independent 1-deoxy-
D-xylose5-phosphate/2
C-methyl-
D-erythritol 4-phosphate pathway is the dominant metabolic route for biosynthesis in lilac flowers. Additionally, bioconversion of deuterium-labeled
d5-(
R/S)-linalool
3,
d6-(
R)-linalool
21,
d5-(
R/S)-8-hydroxylinalool
6,
d5-(
R/S)-8-oxolinalool
7,
d5-lilac aldehydes
8-
11 and
d5-lilac alcohols
12-
15 into lilac during in vivo feeding experiments was investigated and the metabolicpathway is discussed. Incubation of petals with an aqueous solution of deuterated
d5-(
R/S)-linalool
3 indicates an autonomic terpene biosynthesis of lilac flavor compounds in the flower petals of lilac.Keywords:
Syringa vulgaris L. biosynthesis; stir bar sorptive extraction (SBSE); enantioselectivemultidimensional
gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (enantio-MDGC/MS); deuterium-labeled monoterpenes