Chiral Aliphatic Hydroxy Compounds in Nature: a Review of Biological Functions and Practical Applications.

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Chiral Aliphatic Hydroxy Compounds in Nature: a Review of Biological Functions and Practical Applications.

Original language description

Chirality is a phenomenon that pervades the life on the Earth and has a tremendous importance for our daily lives. Many pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, food additives, pheromones, fragrances and cosmetics are chiral. Chiral compounds play an essential role in biological systems, mainly for chemical communication among living organisms, serving as sex pheromones, aggregation pheromones, alarm pheromones, trail pheromones, attractants or repellent agents. This review summarizes our current knowledge of the biologically relevant chiral aliphatic hydroxy compounds, which are divided into eight classes according to their chemical structure: primary alcohols, secondary alcohols, tertiary alcohols, glycols and diols, hydroxy ketones, hydroxy carboxylic acids,hydroxy carboxylic esters and hydroxy amines. Information on biological functions and practical applications is summarized for each class. This information could be of interest to chemists, biochemists, biologists and pharmacists.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

CE - Biochemistry

OECD FORD branch

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Project

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>Z - Vyzkumny zamer (s odkazem do CEZ)

Publication year

2009

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Collection of Czechoslovak chemical communications

ISSN

0010-0765

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Volume of the periodical

74

Issue of the periodical within the volume

7-8

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

83

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

000269891900013

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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