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DUE mainly to the extensive and brilliant researches of Ruzicka and his school, a large majority of the well-characterized triterpenoid compounds have been classified as being related to one or other of the three isomeric alcohols, α-amyrin, β-amyrin or lupeol, and their relationships with these three parent compounds have been rigorously established1. Such a grouping is also indicated by the results of studies of molecular rotation differences2.
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AMES, T., JONES, E. Structure of the Triterpenes : an Interrelationship between the Lupeol and the β-Amyrin Series. Nature 164, 1090–1091 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/1641090a0
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