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Falcarinol
IUPAC name	(3S,9Z)-heptadeca-1,9-diene-4,6-diyn-3-ol
Identifiers
CAS number	21852-80-2
PubChem	5469789
SMILES	CCCCCCC/C=C\CC#CC#C[C@H](C=C)O
Properties
Molecular formula	C17H24O
Molar mass	244.37 g mol−1
	Except where noted otherwise, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C, 100 kPa)
	Infobox references

Falcarinol is a natural pesticide and fatty alcohol found in carrots, red ginseng (Panax ginseng) and ivy. It protects roots from fungal diseases, such as liquorice rot that causes black spots on the roots during storage. Falcarinol is a polyyne with two carbon carbon triple bonds and two double bonds.^[1] Falcarinol can cause allergic and irritant contact dermatitis.^[2]

Falcarinol is thought to reduce the risk of developing cancer, as a research team from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and Danish Universities found in February 2005 in a study on rats.^[3]

[edit] References

^ S. G. Yates, R. E. England (1982). "Isolation and analysis of carrot constituents: myristicin, falcarinol, and falcarindiol". Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 30: 317–320. doi:10.1021/jf00110a025.
^ S. Machado, E. Silva, A. Massa (2002). "Occupational allergic contact dermatitis from falcarinol". Contact Dermatitis 47 (2): 109–125. doi:10.1034/j.1600-0536.2002.470210_5.x.
^ M. Kobæk-Larsen, L. P. Christensen, W. Vach, J. Ritskes-Hoitinga and K. Brandt (2005). "Inhibitory Effects of Feeding with Carrots or (-)-Falcarinol on Development of Azoxymethane-Induced Preneoplastic Lesions in the Rat Colon". Journal of Acricultural and Food Chemistry 53 (5): 1823–1827. doi:10.1021/jf048519s.

[edit] External links

Carrots may help ward off cancer, BBC News
Cancer boost from whole carrots, BBC News

[0] S. G. Yates, R. E. England (1982). "Isolation and analysis of carrot constituents: myristicin, falcarinol, and falcarindiol". Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 30: 317–320. doi:10.1021/jf00110a025.

[1] S. Machado, E. Silva, A. Massa (2002). "Occupational allergic contact dermatitis from falcarinol". Contact Dermatitis 47 (2): 109–125. doi:10.1034/j.1600-0536.2002.470210_5.x.

[2] M. Kobæk-Larsen, L. P. Christensen, W. Vach, J. Ritskes-Hoitinga and K. Brandt (2005). "Inhibitory Effects of Feeding with Carrots or (-)-Falcarinol on Development of Azoxymethane-Induced Preneoplastic Lesions in the Rat Colon". Journal of Acricultural and Food Chemistry 53 (5): 1823–1827. doi:10.1021/jf048519s.

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