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Coumarin

CAS 91-64-5

Coumarin
A closer look at Coumarin: the structure tells the story.
Coumarin: coumarin's sweet hay-like odor helped shape synthetic perfumery, while derivatives of the same benzopyrone scaffold later produced very different biology such as 4-hydroxycoumarin anticoagulants. This is exactly the kind of case where a structural formula becomes a story about behavior.
Published: 2026-09-10
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