Meanings
- not comparableOnly used in kojic acid
[…] arbutin is believed to be less potent than kojic and azelaic acid.
2014, Zein E. Obagi, The Art of Skin Health Restoration and Rejuvenation, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 633 more examples
Active compounds included 2-hydroxy-derivatives of benzoic acid and benzaldehyde, 3-hydroxygamma-pyrones (kojic and meconic acids, but not chelidonic acid), […]
1957, American Society for Microbiology, Bacteriological ProceedingsIt was postulated that both kojic and comenic acids could form tautomer forms [...] which was not possible for maltol.
1970, Samuel J. Ajl, Microbial Toxins: Fungal toxinsThis conclusion is confirmed by the conversion of both kojic and comenic acids (XVIII) into the same methyldihydroxypyridine (XIX).
2009, F. F. Nord, Advances in Enzymology and Related Areas of Molecular Biology, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 577
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