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terpene: a standalone construct

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terpene1 CONSTRUCTTerpeneRUZICKA · ISOPRENE RULE

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Natural-product chemistry

Isoprene-built compounds behind many plant odours

Terpenes are a large class of natural products built from five-carbon isoprene units, including many of the volatiles responsible for plant odours (pinene, limonene, linalool and the like), which makes them foundational to flavour and fragrance. Ruzicka’s 1953 The isoprene rule and the biogenesis of terpenic compounds formalised the structural principle that unifies the family. The referent is a chemically defined family of isoprenoid compounds, central to olfaction because so many odorants are terpenes.[1]

Unit
A class of isoprenoid compounds (multiples of C5 isoprene units)
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Identified by carbon count / isoprene-unit structure and characterised by GC–MS and spectroscopy

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References

  1. Ruzicka, L. (1953). The isoprene rule and the biogenesis of terpenic compounds. Experientia, 9(10), 357–367. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02167631

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