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Science 14 March 1969:
Vol. 163. no. 3872, pp. 1192 - 1193
DOI: 10.1126/science.163.3872.1192
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Triterpene Alcohol Isolation from Oil Shale

P. Albrecht 1 and G. Ourisson 1

1 Laboratoire Associé au C. N. R. S. Institut de Chimie, 1, rue Blaise Pascal 67, Strasbourg, France

Isoarborinol, an intact pentacyclic unsaturated alcohol, was isolated from the Messel oil shale (about 50 x 106 years old). Complex organic substances, even those very sensitive to oxidation, reduction, or acidic conditions, can thus survive without alteration for long periods.


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