English

Noun

coniferyl alcohol ‎(uncountable)

1. (organic chemistry) A monolignol, 4-(3-hydroxy-1-propenyl)-2-methoxyphenol, found in many plants.
   • 1875 December 1, The American Chemist, page 232:

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

   • 1962, Forest Products Journal, volume 12, page 142:

     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.

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

     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.