Lichen acids

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Lung lichen ( Lobaria pulmonaria )

Lichen acids are a group of organisms for the braiding characteristic type organic chemical natural substances of different structure as depsides , depsidones and Depsone of phenolic carboxylic acids (eg. B. derivatives of orcinol or Dibenzofuranverbindungen). Lichen acids are sometimes used medicinally because of their antibiotic effects.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dietrich Frohne, Uwe Jensen: Systematics of the plant kingdom with special consideration of chemical characteristics and plant drugs . 4th edition, Gustav Fischer, Stuttgart / Jena / New York, ISBN 3-437-20486-6 , p. 317.