dihydroactinidiolide

noun

A terpenoid insect pheromone formed from actinidiolide by the addition of two hydrogen atoms across a double bond

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Meanings

noundihydroactinidiolide (uncountable)
  1. uncountablechemistryA terpenoid insect pheromone formed from actinidiolide by the addition of two hydrogen atoms across a double bond

    [ 7 ] isolated phytol, β -sitosterol, 2,4-di-tert-butylphenol, and vitamin E while Malek et al. isolated campesterol, stigmasterol, dihydroactinidiolide, and 2,4-di-tert-butylphenol in the same year.

    2015 July 27, Carolina Carvalho Guilhon et al., “Central Antinociceptive and Mechanism of Action of Pereskia bleo Kunth Leaves Crude Extract, Fractions, and Isolated Compounds”, in Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine : eCAM, volume 2015, →DOI

Origin

From di- + hydro- + actinidiolide.

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