Several drugs, including those for depression, schizophrenia, and malaria, would not exist if not for a type of organic chemical compound called alicyclic compounds. These compounds are 3-D structures formed when three or more carbon atoms join in a ring via covalent bonds, but the ring is not aromatic.
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