Producing and recovering terpenic oxidation products

Claim 1

THE PROCESS FOR TREATING A GASEOUS OXYGEN OXIDATION MIXTURE OF AN UNSATURATED TERPENIC MATERIAL SELECTED FROM THE CLASS CONSISTING OF (1) A MONO-UNSATURATED COMPOUND POSSESSING THE CARBON-CARBON SYSTEM OF PINANE IN WHICH THE DOUBLE BOND INVOLVES THE NUMBER 2 CARBON ATOM, (2) AN UNSATURATED P-METHANE DERIVATIVE POSSESSING A DOUBLE BOND INVOLVING THE NUMBER 2 ATOM AS THE SOLE CARBONCARBON DOUBLE BOND INVOLVING A NUCLEAR CARBON ATOM, (3) A PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED MYCRENE AND (4) A PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED ALLOOCIMENE, WHICH OXIDATION MIXTURE IS RICH IN EPOXIDES AND PEROXIDES AND IS FORMED BY THE OXIDATION OF SUCH UNSATURATED TERPENIC MATERIAL WITH GASEOUS OXYGEN, WHICH CONSISTS ESSENTIALLY IN DECOMPOSING THE PEROXIDES IN SUCH A MIXTURE BY TREATING THE MIXTURE WITH A NON-REDUCING ALKALINE MATERIAL IN AN AMOUNT SUFFICIENT TO MAINTAIN ALKALINE CONDITIONS THROUGHOUT THE TREATMENT UNTIL THE PEROXIDES PRESENT ARE SUBSTANTIALLY DECOMPOSED.