Meanings
nounnorbadione (uncountable)
- uncountableAny of a group of pigments, related to pulvinic acids, found in Boletus mushrooms
The pulvinic acid scaffold, which is an important structural motif of norbadione A (Fig 1 ), was used as a starting point for the synthesis of 18 related compounds, whose experimental evaluation confirmed their antioxidant activity [4 ].
2015 October 17, “In Silico Discovery of Novel Potent Antioxidants on the Basis of Pulvinic Acid and Coumarine Derivatives and Their Experimental Evaluation”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
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