“…As part of our studies of the essential oil of the Atlas cedar (Cedrus atlantica) made up mainly (50%) of -himachalene (Benharref et al, 2013;El Haib et al, 2011), the reactivity of this sesquiterpene and its derivatives has been studied extensively by our team in order to prepare new products having biological properties (El Jamili et al, 2002;Zaki et al, 2014;Benharref et al, 2015Benharref et al, , 2016. Indeed, these compounds have been tested, using the food-poisoning technique, for their potential antifungal activity against the phytopathogen Botrytis cinerea (Daoubi et al, 2004).…”