A member of the class of benzophenones that is benzophenone in which one of the phenyl groups is substituted by a 3,3-dimethylallyl group at position 3 and by hydroxy groups at positions 2 and 6, while the other is substituted by a formyl group at position 2, a 3,3-dimethylallyloxy group at position 3, a methyl group at position 4, and a hydroxy group at position 6.
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This entity has been manually annotated by the ChEBI Team.
NMR data show that in methanol, arugosin A exists in equilibrium between the ring-opened and lactol forms, whereas in dimethyl sulfoxide, the equilibrium is shifted completely to the ring-opened (hydroxy-aldehyde) form.