sclareoln.
/ˈsklɛːrɪɒl/ Chemistry.
A colourless crystalline diterpenoid alcohol, C20H36O2, found in the leaves of clary; also, one of the two constituent epimers of this.
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1928 Chem. Abstr. 22 1828 The essence [of clary]..contains 42·2% of crystallizable sclareol.
1959 Chem. & Industry 1379/1 Since sclareol has been dehydrated to a mixture of manool and manoyl oxide, all three compounds must have the same absolute configuration at C(13).
1975 Nature 22 May 328/2 An epimeric mixture of the diterpenes sclareol and 13-epi-sclareol (sclareol)..has been shown to constitute 10% of the surface exudate on leaves of Nicotiana glutinosa.
1975 Nature 22 May 328/2 In replicate experiments, applications of..sclareol consistently gave good control of rust on French bean, broad bean and wheat, reducing infection to less than 10% of control.
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