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Isolation and Structure Determination of the Precursors of a-and y-Irone and Homologous Compounds from Iris pallida and Iris florentina

  • W. Krick , F.-J. Marner and L. Jaenicke

Rhizomes of Iris pallida and Iris florentina contain - increasing on storage - violet-like smelling C14-ketones (irones 1 a-c) which develop by oxidative degradation of C31-triterpenoids. The structure of these precursors is reported as well as the structure of respective C30-homologues.

The unusual C31-structures may derive biogenetically from the respective C30 compounds by a methylation which initiates the formation of the ring-closed irone-moiety

Received: 1982-12-28
Published Online: 2014-6-2
Published in Print: 1983-4-1

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