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Offline kemet

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cycloalkanes biological importance
« on: November 04, 2007, 06:06:15 AM »
hi,

I need some help to make a research paper about the biological importance of cycloalkanes compunds. I need specific information, like names of cycloalkanes compuonds and their biological importance. I'll appreciate if someone can help me with some online sources coz im majoring in industrial chemistry and i don't have enogh or almost no infomraiton about biology ???.
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Re: cycloalkanes biological importance
« Reply #1 on: November 04, 2007, 11:42:31 AM »
Inositol and its derivatives are the only cycloalkanes in biology that I can think of off of the top of my head.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inositol
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Re: cycloalkanes biological importance
« Reply #2 on: November 08, 2007, 03:12:57 AM »
What about steroids? Some are saturated and hence derived from four-ring cycloalkanes.
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Re: cycloalkanes biological importance
« Reply #3 on: November 08, 2007, 03:28:45 AM »
And terpenes! Thousands of biologically important cycloalkane derivatives!
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Re: cycloalkanes biological importance
« Reply #4 on: November 09, 2007, 01:53:02 PM »
Lets not forget our friends ketamine, which contains a cyclohexyl moiety, and phencyclohexylpiperidine, aka PCP :)

Not to mention all those delightful analogs of PCP with opioid activity either 8)
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