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Frankincense: NMR IDs cis and trans

You could usually predict the arrival of the Queen of Sheba for the unmistakable aroma of her scent - frankincense. Now, French scientists have used nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy to identify the two main odour components of this centuries-old perfume and dubbed them (+)-cis- and (+)-trans-olibanic acids.

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