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Arylhimachalene /molbank/m0236.htm Molecules 2001, 6, M236 ar-Himachalene B. Abouhamza, S Allaoud and A. Karim Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination, Faculté des Sciences SemLalia B.P. 2390 Marrakech, Morroco E-mail: smailallaoud@ucam.ac.ma Received: 16 January 2001 / Accepted: 15 May 2001 / Published: 25 May 2001 Keywords: sesquiterpene, oil of cedar, cedrus atlantica, dehydrogenation The reaction of dehydrogenation on the natural mixture of himachalene is already known [1]. A convenient synthesis of arylhimachalene was investigated. The three isomeric sesquiterpenes a-, b- and g-himachalen