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. 2012 May 10;13:90. doi: 10.1186/1471-2105-13-90

Figure 6.

Figure 6

Proposed mechanism describing the thermal isomerization of α-Pinene. In this reaction α-Pinene (γ1) is thermally isomerized to dipentene (γ2) and allo-ocimene (γ3), which in turn yields α- and β-Pyronene (γ4) and a dimer (γ5).