FARNESOL

(David Kritchevsky)



Take an acetate,

Condense it with a mate

Pretty soon you have

Acetoacetate.

Let 'em have a ball

You get geraniol,

Add another isoprene

And you've got farnesol.



cho: Farnesol, farnesol, good old farnesol,

First it goes to squalene, then you get cholesterol.

Farnesol, farnesol, good old farnesol,

First it goes to squalene, then you get cholesterol.



Now squalene makes a roll,

Becomes lanosterol

The extra methyls do

Come off as CO2;

Then comes zymosterol,

And then desmosterol

If you don't take Triparanol

You get cholesterol.



tune: Jingle Bells

@filk @chemistry

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