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Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal (185 words) |
 | Cadinene is the trivial chemical name of a number of isomeric hydrocarbons that occur in a wide variety of essential oil-producing plants. |
| The term 'cadinene' has sometimes been used in a broad sense to refer to any sesquiterpene with the so-called cadalane (4-isopropyl-1,6-dimethyldecahydronaphthalene) carbon skeleton. |
| Because of the large number of known double-bond and stereochemical isomers, this class of compounds has been subdivided into four subclasses based on the relative stereochemistry at the isopropyl group and the two bridgehead carbon atoms. |
| cadinene (220 words) |
| The name is derived from that of the Cade juniper (Juniperus oxycedrus L.), the wood of which yields an oil from which |
| cadinene isomers were first isolated.Chemically, the cadinenes are bicyclic sesquiterpenes. |
| cadinene is now properly used only for the first subclass below, which includes the compounds originally isolated from cade oil. |
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