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TERPENES

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 648 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TERPENES  PROPER The terpenes proper may be subdivided into the See also:

simple mono-cyclic terpenes and the more complex (usually bicyclic) terpenes . The monocyclic terpenes are hydro derivatives of paracymene . A. v . See also:Baeyer proposed the following nomenclature: the dihydroparacymenes are called terpadienes, the tetrahydrocymenes be-coming terpenes and the hexahydrocymene terpan, the See also:carbon atoms being numbered as shown in the inset See also:formula: In the more complex terpenes the name camphene is retained, and camphane is 42 3\ (8)l C (9) used for the dihydrocamphene . G . (~) C \o 5~—C \C (to) See also:Wagner (Ber., 1894, 27, p . 1636 Anm.) designates the hexahydrocymenes menthans, the tetrahydrocymenes menthenes, and the dihydrocymenes menthadienes .

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