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Volatiles.
Organic chemistry/polymer science. Chemistry & analysis.
Abstract:
In higher plants the C-11 homoterpene 4,8-dimethylnona-1,3,7-triene (1) originates from oxidative degradation of nerolidol (3) or geranylacetone (4). The geometry of the transition state of bond cleavage has been shown to be syn-periplanar, for both 3 a