Natural and synthetic menthol

Mint: The Genus Mentha

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 371-398

  Hopp, Rudolph ^a   Lawrence, Brian M ^b  

^a Journal of Essential Oil Research ^*  (Germany)

^b Journal of Essential Oil Research   (United States)

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