title: Triterpenoids.
abstract: This review covers the isolation and structure determination of triterpenoids including squalene derivatives, protostanes, lanostanes, holostanes, cycloartanes, dammaranes, euphanes, tirucallanes, tetranortriterpenoids, quassinoids, lupanes, oleananes, friedelanes, ursanes, hopanes, isomalabaricanes and saponins. The literature from January 2005 to December 2006 is reviewed and 478 references are cited.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Glasgow University, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, UK.
authors.forename: Joseph D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Connolly
authors.forename: Robert A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Hill
mesh_terms: D015394:Molecular Structure; D010946:Plants, Medicinal / Q000737:chemistry*; D013329:Structure-Activity Relationship; D014315:Triterpenes / Q000737:chemistry / Q000145:classification / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D014315:Triterpenes