Abstract
Although discovered in the late 1800s, there was little progress in the study of acetylenic compounds from plants until the 1950s. These compounds are highly unstable to light, oxygen, and heat. Plant acetylenes often occur in complex mixtures and the techniques needed to isolate, purify, and characterize them were not widely available until that time; UV spectrophotometry permitted workers to assign structures and was a major breakthrough for study of this group. Acetylenic compounds are widespread in nature, but they are concentrated in several groups of plants and fungi. At present, about 1000 naturally occurring acetylenes are known.
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Seigler, D.S. (1998). Acetylenic Compounds. In: Plant Secondary Metabolism. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4913-0_3
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