Introductory Chapter: Terpenes and Terpenoids

Abstract

A major class of secondary metabolites are known as triterpenes and it usually contains thirty carbons consisting of six isoprene units. Different class of triterpenes are known as lanostanes, euphanes,holostanes, tetranortriterpenoids, cycloartanes, cucurbitanes, dammaranes, tirucallanes, quassinoids, oleananes, lupanes, friedelanes, ursanes, hopanes, serratanes, isomalabaricanes which derived from the squalene biosynthesis (Table

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