diosphenoln.
/dʌɪəsˈfiːnəl/ Chemistry.
A crystalline odoriferous compound, C10H16O2, the main constituent of buchu leaf oil.
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1880 F. A. Flückiger in Pharm. Jrnl. & Trans. 11 219/1 On submitting 35 kilograms of round buchu leaves to distillation (Barosma betulina), I obtained 180 grams of essential oil... An oily layer..concretes, and affords a crystallized mass of what we may call diosphenol, with allusion to Diosma, the original Linnean name bestowed on the buchu plants.
1934 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 240 The very intense absorption of diosphenol is, of course, due to its being an enolised ketone.
1949 E. Guenther Essent. Oils III. 371 The main constituent of buchu leaf oil is diosphenol (buchu camphor) C10H16O2, a ketophenol.
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