Talk:Carnosic acid

Actually an antioxidant? Perhaps not.

I have personally noticed a widespread attribution of carnosic acid being an antioxidant, and never have I seen a single source for that claim. At least one test (done by Kevin Dunn in his book Scientific Soapmaking in order to determine how to retard oxidative rancidification of soaps high in unsaturated fatty acids) has shown the active antioxidant of rosemary oleoresin to be the rosmarinic acid, and not the carnosic acid. The one study cited by this page does not investigate whether carnosic acid actually functions as an antioxidant, but merely repeats that it is noted to be one, at which point it proceeds with strategies to synthesize carnosic acid. --99.54.189.230 (talk) 01:07, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

IUPAC name

Wouldn't that be 1,2,3,4,4a,9,10,10a-octahydro? 69.72.92.144 (talk) 06:02, 15 October 2014 (UTC)

The IUPAC name currently in the article matches what is given at the PubChem listing. The positions of the two "missing" hydrogens are actually taken by a methyl group and the carboxylic acid. -- Ed (Edgar181) 11:45, 15 October 2014 (UTC)

Please confirm classification

The WikiProject classification for Carnosic acid is Start-class. However, the page has less than 100 words, so it might not meet the grading criteria. If it should be a stub, then please set |class=Stub on this talk page & reinstate the stub tags on the article page.   ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  03:12, 11 July 2016 (UTC)