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    Muscone is a macrocyclic ketone, an organic compound that is the primary contributor to the odor of deer musk. Natural muscone is obtained from musk, a...
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  • modeled after the main odorants in animal musk: muscone in deer musk, and civetone in civet. Muscone and civetone are macrocyclic ketones. Other structurally...
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    ring hydrocarbon. The compound is a precursor to the fragrance and scent muscone by autoxidation to cyclopentadecanol. Panten, Johannes; Surburg, Horst...
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    unsaturated, asymmetrical ketone that is the precursor to other polymers. Muscone, 3-methylpentadecanone, is an animal pheromone. Another cyclic ketone is...
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    complexation. An illustrative macrocyclization is the synthesis of (−)-muscone from (+)-citronellal. The 15-membered ring is generated by ring-closing...
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    becomes pleasant at extreme dilutions. Civetone is closely related to muscone, the principal odoriferous compound found in musk; the structure of both...
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    compound primarily responsible for the characteristic odor of musk is muscone. There are several ways of preparing the commercial musk, and the best...
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  • balsam), terpenoids (e.g. ambroxide), polycyclic ketones (e.g. civetone and muscone), which were originally obtained from animals, but are now mostly chemically...
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    research group of Günther Ohloff, and applied it to the production of muscone and related macrocyclic musks. The reaction is also sometimes known as...
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  • 15-pentadec-11/12-enolide) have odors similar to macrocyclic ketones of animal origin (muscone, civetone). Polycaprolactone is an important plastic. Its formation has...
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    group of his doctoral students, he proved the structure of the compounds muscone and civetone, macrocyclic ketone scents derived from the musk deer (Moschus...
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    similar in chemical structure to the natural musk scents civetone and muscone. 5-Cyclohexadecenone has a strong musk scent with floral, amber, and civet...
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    17α-dihydroxyandrostane can be isolated from the steroid fraction. 3-Methylpentadecanone (muscone) was not identified among the secretion lipids. The decline of the Siberian...
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  • for such reactions are the naturally occurring fragrances civetone and muscone. The method involved dry distillation of dibasic salts of a dicarboxylic...
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    musk-recognizing receptor, OR5AN1 that robustly responds to cyclopentadecanone and muscone, fails to distinguish isotopomers of these compounds in vitro. Furthermore...
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    60–80%. An outstanding instance of this synthesis was the preparation of muscone, the odiferous principle of animal musk by Leopold Ružička. Ziegler and...
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  • receptor expression system and robustly responding to cyclopentadecanone and muscone (which has 30 hydrogens), fails to distinguish isotopologues of these compounds...
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  • receptor expression system and robustly responding to cyclopentadecanone and muscone (which has 30 hydrogens), fails to distinguish isotopomers of these compounds...
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    especially those with alkene group in the backbone such as civetone, muscone, and 5-cyclohexadecenone (velvione). It is synthesized from 8-cyclohexadecenone...
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  • odorous compounds which resulted in the development of compounds such as muscone, dihydrocivetone, exaltone, exaltolide and ambrettolide which are reported...
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    Ruzicka large-ring synthesis Synthesis and elucidation of various terpenes Muscone Leopold Ružička Laminate flooring Glueless laminate flooring Click for...
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  • g/mol, exact mass: 238.2297 u) may refer to: Bombykol Cyclohexadecanone Muscone This set index page lists chemical structure articles associated with the...
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    receptor expression system and robustly responding to cyclopentadecanone and muscone, fails to distinguish isotopomers of these compounds in vitro. Furthermore...
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    olfaction and molecular mechanisms for sensing thiols as well as musk, such as muscone. With his collaborators Block has also examined the plausibility of the...
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    For example, the key cyclization step in the total synthesis of (R)-(-)-Muscone was an intramolecular asymmetric addition of a vinylzinc derivative to...
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    proteins for this organism is independent of other organisms. Civetone Muscone Olfactory receptor GRCh38: Ensembl release 89: ENSG00000176495 – Ensembl...
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