Talk:santol

Missing English chemical noun?

• The Practitioner's Medical Dictionary (Gould, 1919): "1. A crystalline substance ... found by H. Weidel (1870) in white sandalwood. 2. A proprietary preparation of sandalwood, used for gonorrhea, etc."

The original text gives the chemical formula, but it was corrupted to "CiHtOi" in scanning. From looking around Google Books I think it may be C₁₅H₁₀O₆ (see Journal of the Chemical Society (of Great Britain), volume 113, part 1, page 137). In any case it's not clear that this name ever really caught on. Equinox ◑ 17:52, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

Only found it in a book from the same year and the same author (citations). The journal article contains a few similar compound names, some of which may be attestable: santol, santalin, acetylsantalin, isosantalin, deoxysantalin, deoxyisosantalin, acetylisosantalin, acetyldeoxyisosantalin, santal, santalone. -- Einstein2 (talk) 18:29, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

We're gonna miss Blotto when he's gone. Equinox ◑ 20:26, 8 April 2020 (UTC)