Thermal Rearrangements of Monoterpenes and Monoterpenoids |
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| Authors: | Achim Stolle Bernd Ondruschka Henning Hopf |
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| Institution: | 1. Institute for Technical Chemistry and Environmental Chemistry, Friedrich‐Schiller University Jena, Lessingstra?e 12, D‐07743 Jena, (phone: +49‐3691‐948413;2. fax: +49‐3641‐948402);3. Institute for Organic Chemistry, Technical University Braunschweig, Hagenring 30, D‐38106 Braunschweig |
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| Abstract: | The thermal conversions of monoterpenes and monoterpenoids are an interesting field of research with respect to mechanistic, kinetic, and theoretical issues. Since the beginning of the 20th century, these reactions have attracted the interest of many research groups, and even today there are sufficient problems and questions to deal with. This review covers the thermal isomerization chemistry of pinanes, pinenes, carenes, and thujenes over the past 70 years. Categorization of these compounds into groups, each of them being represented by a small parent molecule (cyclobutane, vinylcyclobutane, vinylcyclopropane), allows systematization of multitude of publications. |
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| Keywords: | Monoterpenoids Monoterpenes Thermal rearrangements Pinanes Carenes Thujenes |
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