Organic Chemistry
Organic Chemistry
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ISBN: 9781118133576
Author: T. W. Graham Solomons, Craig Fryhle
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
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Chapter 23, Problem 2PP
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The isoprene units in the given compounds are to be shown and each of them as per their isoprene units are to be classified.

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Essential oils are mixtures of odoriferous compounds that are extracted from plants by heating or steam distillation. These essential oils have important chemical composition of hydrocarbons called terpenes and oxygen-containing compounds called terpenoids.

A single isoprene unit consists of 5-carbon atoms with double bonds, and its chemical formula is 2methyl1,3butadiene. The structural formulae of isoprene and its single isoprene unit is as follows:

Organic Chemistry, Chapter 23, Problem 2PP

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