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Terpenes and steroids

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The Biosynthesis of Secondary Metabolites

Abstract

The polyketides form a group of metabolites which are based on patterns of repeating acetate units (Chapter 3). There is another group of metabolites, widespread in nature and rich in diverse chemistry, which is based on another repeating unit: isoprene (4.1).

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Herbert, R.B. (1981). Terpenes and steroids. In: The Biosynthesis of Secondary Metabolites. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5833-3_4

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