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Fallacinol
Chemical compound found in some lichens / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fallacinol (teloschistin) is an organic compound in the structural class of chemicals known as anthraquinones. It is found in some lichens, particularly in the family Teloschistaceae, as well as a couple of plants and non lichen-forming fungi. In 1936, Japanese chemists isolated a pigment named fallacin from the lichen Oxneria fallax, which was later refined and assigned a tentative structural formula; by 1949, Indian chemists had isolated a substance from Teloschistes flavicans with an identical structural formula to fallacin. Later research further separated fallacin into two distinct pigments, fallacin-A (later called fallacinal) and fallacin-B (fallacinol). The latter compound is also known as teloschistin due to its structural match with the substance isolated earlier.
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IUPAC name
1,8-Dihydroxy-3-(hydroxymethyl)-6-methoxyanthracene-9,10-dione | |
Other names
Teloschistin | |
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C16H12O6 | |
Molar mass | 300.266 g·mol−1 |
Appearance | orange needles |
Melting point | 244–246 °C (471–475 °F; 517–519 K) |
Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa).
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