Did Kurt Alder (1950 Nobel Laureate - Diene Synthesis ) collaborate with Alfred Windhaus at Göttingen in 1930-36 ???
The Germans would not have understood the structure of Vitamins D without the prior understanding of double carbon bond conjugation.
Vitamins D are ring structured "1,3-butadienes"
Dienes.
With a little help from my friends at UCLA.
Conjugation test
Vitamins D are exotic dienes.
The coined word for Vitamin D2 as Calciferol
Cal for Calcium ?
chiffre for null cipher in German ?
fero for iron or maybe another German word beginning with fer ?
ol for alcohol ?
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