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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A terpene having the formula C20H32.

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  • noun chemistry any terpene formed from four isoprene units, and having twenty carbon atoms; includes vitamin A, the gibberellins, and various biologically active lactones such as quassin

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  • Report of the Tropical Products Institute, G87, 107 pp. ADOLF, W. and HECKER, E. (1971) Further new diterpene esters from the irritant cocarcinogenic seed oil and latex of the caper spurge.

    Chapter 5 1953

  • OPFERKUCH H.J. and ADOLF, W. (1970a) Structure determination of the new tetracyclic diterpene ingenoltriacetate with triple product methods.

    Chapter 5 1953

  • ADOL., W. and HECKER, E. (1980) New irritant diterpene esters from roots of Stillingia sylvatica L. Tetrahedron L.tters, (21), 2887 - 2890.

    Chapter 5 1953

  • FURSTENBERGER, G. and HECKER, E. (1977) The new diterpene

    Chapter 5 1953

  • HECKER, E. (1977) New toxic, irritant, and co-carcinogenic diterpene esters from Euphorbiaceae and Thymelaeaceae.

    Chapter 5 1953

  • ENGEL. D.W. and HOPPE, W. (1971) Structure of 7—hydroxy—lathyrol, a further diterpene from Euphorbia lathyris L. Tetrahedron L.tters, (18), 1325 - 1328.

    Chapter 5 1953

  • SCHMIDT, R.J. and EVANS, F.J. (1975) A new aromatic ester diterpene from Euphorbia poisonii.

    Chapter 5 1953

  • Part l l: Aliphatic diterpene esters of the latices of E. poisonii Pax. and E. unispina N. E.Br.

    Chapter 5 1953

  • Triptolide is a diterpene triepoxide from the Chinese medicinal plant Tripterygium wilfordii Hook F., with known anti-inflammatory, immunosuppressive and anti-cancer properties.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles Vummidigiridhar Premkumar 2010

  • Lemaire M, Nagnan P, Clement J-L, Lange C, Peru L, et al. (1990) Geranyl linalool (diterpene alcohol): an insecticidal component of pine wood and termites (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae) in four European ecosystems.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2009

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