Unsaturated
C20fatty acids and skeletally related compounds. The spelling icosanoids is preferred over the spelling
eicosanoids for
consistency with icosanoic acid. Specialists working in this field commonly use eicosanoids,
however.
Source:
PAC, 1995, 67, 1307
(Glossary of class names of organic compounds and reactivity intermediates based on
structure (IUPAC Recommendations 1995))
on page 1342