Tapping into the World of Terpenoids

Title: Tapping into the World of Terpenoids
Creator: Oyedeji, A O
Subject: Terpenoids
Subject: Terpenes
Subject: Medicinal plants -- Analysis
Date Issued: 2014
Date: 2014
Type: text
Type: Lectures
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/11260/1111
Identifier: vital:30607
Description: Terpenes are a class of secondary metabolites found in plants and insects (such as termites or swallowtail butterflies). Terpenes are strong-smelling aromatic hydrocarbon which are used by plants/ insects to protect themselves by deterring parasites. They are secondary metabolites synthesized in plants. When a hydrogen or atoms of hydrogen, are replaced by other atoms such as oxygen, in a terpene compound, the terpene becomes a terpenoid (also known as isoprenoids). Terpenoids are a large and diverse class of naturally occurring organic chemicals, derived from five-carbon isoprene units assembled and modified in thousands of ways. They are multicyclic structures that differ from one another not only in functional group but also in their basic carbon skeletons. Terpenoids are found in all classes of living things, and are the largest group of natural products.
Format: pdf
Format: 36 leaves
Publisher: Water Sisulu University
Language: English
Relation: Inaugural Lectures
Rights: Oyedeji, A O

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