Tags: Chemical Compound, Chemical Substance.

Coniferyl alcohol is an organic compound. This colourless crystalline solid is a phytochemical one of the monolignols. It is synthethized via the phenylpropanoid biochemical pathway. When copolymerized with related aromatic compounds coniferyl alcohol forms lignin or lignans. Coniferin is a glucoside of coniferyl alcohol.Coniferyl alcohol is an intermediate in biosynthesis of eugenol and of stilbenoids and coumarin.

Coniferol.svg
IUPAC name
2-methoxyphenol, 4-(3-hydroxy-1-propenyl)-

Loading...

This page contains content from the copyrighted Wikipedia article "Coniferyl alcohol"; that content is used under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the GFDL.