ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Perillaldehyde

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Perillaldehyde is a noun meaning perilla aldehyde: a natural organic compound found most abundantly in the annual herb perilla, but also in a wide variety of other plants and essential oils. It is a monoterpenoid containing an aldehyde functional group.

Meaning

perilla aldehyde: a natural organic compound found most abundantly in the annual herb perilla, but also in a wide variety of other plants and essential oils. It is a monoterpenoid containing an aldehyde functional group.

Example Sentences

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).

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include perillyl, perillartine, arylaldehyde, nonanal, propionaldehyde, delpyrine.

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