Use: pharmaceutical, cosmetic, agricultural, food industries.
IntroductionMonoterpenes are a class of terpenes that consist of two isoprene units and have the molecular formula C10H16.
Monoterpenes may be linear (acyclic) or contain rings (monocyclic and bicyclic). Modified terpenes, such as those containing oxygen functionality or missing a methyl group, are called monoterpenoids.
Monoterpenes and monoterpenoids are diverse.
Bicyclic monoterpenes: carene, sabinene, camphene, thujene.Bicyclic monoterpenoids containing ketone, alcohol, ether: Camphor, borneol, eucalyptol, ascaridol; bridging peroxide functional groups.
Bicyclic monoterpene ketone: Umbellulone.
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