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perillyl

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Etymology

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From perilla +‎ -yl.

Noun

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perillyl (uncountable)

  1. (organic chemistry) The univalent radical derived from perillyl alcohol
    • 2015 July 28, Morten Hyldgaard et al., “Isoeugenol has a non-disruptive detergent-like mechanism of action”, in Frontiers in Microbiology[1], volume 6, →DOI:
      Molecular dynamics simulations have shown that essential oil constituents like perillaldehyde or perillyl alcohol carrying more hydrophilic groups require more energy to traverse the membrane and have a 700-fold slower flip-flop rate than the nonpolar constituent limonene (Witzke et al., 2010 ).