coniferyl alcohol

noun

A monolignol, 4-(3-hydroxy-1-propenyl)-2-methoxyphenol, found in many plants.

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Meanings

nounconiferyl alcohol (uncountable)
  1. uncountablechemistryA monolignol, 4-(3-hydroxy-1-propenyl)-2-methoxyphenol, found in many plants.

    Coniferin is converted into grape-sugar and coniferyl alcohol under the influence of emulsine.

    1875 December 28, The American Chemist, page 232
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    Higushi (54) reported on mushroom phenol oxidase prepared by the method of Freudenberg and its use for oxidation of coniferyl alcohol and related compounds and demonstrated that the enzyme product was a mixture of tyrosinase and laccase.

    1962, Forest Products Journal, volume 12, page 142

    Given the presumed role(s) of monolignol glucosides in lignification, it was of considerable interest to next establish whether UDPG:coniferyl alcohol (CA) glucosyl-transferases exhibited any substrate stereoselectivity toward either E- or Z-monolignols.

    2012, Richard W. Hemingway, Plant Polyphenols: Synthesis, Properties, Significance

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