glycyrrhetinn.
/ɡlɪsɪˈriːtɪn//ɡlɪsɪˈrɛtɪn/ Chemistry.
= glycyrrhetic acid n. at glycyrrhetic adj.
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1864 H. Watts Dict. Chem. II. 919 Gycyrretin,..a substance obtained, together with glucose, by boiling glycyrrhizin with dilute acids.
1877 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 1 96 Glycyrretin... This compound..yields when fused with potash only paroxybenzoic acid.
1907 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 92 i. 545 When it [sc. glycyrrhizic acid] is boiled for five hours with 3% sulphuric acid, air being excluded, glycyrrhetic acid, C32H48O7.., m.p. 210° (hitherto known as ‘glycyrrhetin’), is precipitated.
1943 Thorpe's Dict. Appl. Chem. (ed. 4) VI. 98/1 Glycyrrhetin, glycyrrhetic acid, C32H48O7.
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