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  • noun organic chemistry A macrocyclic ketone (R)-3-methylcyclopentadecanone that is the main constituent of the odour of musk

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Examples

  • Psychological effects of musky compounds: comparison of androstadienone with androstenol and muscone.

    More Parts of the Puzzle Zoe Brain 2008

  • A musk, l-muscone has been known for years, but no one could come up with a way to make it economically until Takasago did.

    Chemicals in perfume GreenFertility 2008

  • Andrea Lupo, a perfumer at Takasago, put l-muscone in the perfume Intimately Night for David and Victoria Beckham and Coty, their licensee.

    Chemicals in perfume GreenFertility 2008

  • Reading the formula aldehydes, civet, muscone you would be forgiven for thinking that it's something along the lines of the Dallas exclusive, Aldehyde 44.

    Sweater Girl...Le Labo Musc 25 Marina Geigert 2008

  • One recent successful Takasago captive is l-muscone.

    Chemicals in perfume GreenFertility 2008

  • Reading the formula aldehydes, civet, muscone you would be forgiven for thinking that it's something along the lines of the Dallas exclusive, Aldehyde 44.

    Archive 2008-12-01 Marina Geigert 2008

  • He discovered that the molecule of muscone as well as that of civetone contains one single ring of carbon atoms, the number of which was considerably larger than that in all hitherto known cyclic molecules, larger even than had been considered possible.

    Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1939 - Presentation Speech 1966

  • When studying the natural odorants occurring in musk and civet, muscone and civetone, little known until then, Ruzicka obtained fundamentally new and surprising results during the years

    Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1939 - Presentation Speech 1966

  • But by far the most important fruits collected in the perfumery garden were the elucidations of the structures of the naturally occurring musk perfumes, civetone and muscone.

    Leopold Ruzicka - Biography 1966

  • Garcia S, Hayreh D, McClintock MK (2002) Psychological effects of musky compounds: comparison of androstadienone with androstenol and muscone.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Ivanka Savic et al. 2010

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