A dicarboxylic acid monoester resulting from the formal condensation of one of the carboxylic acid groups of crocetin with the anomeric hydroxy group of β-D-gentiobiose.
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This entity has been manually annotated by the ChEBI Team.
crocin-1
(CHEBI:79068)
has functional parent
β-D-gentiobiosyl crocetin
(CHEBI:62769)
β-D-gentiobiosyl crocetin(1−)
(CHEBI:62770)
is conjugate base of
β-D-gentiobiosyl crocetin
(CHEBI:62769)
See also Côté, F., Cormier, F., Dufresne, C. and Willemot, C. Properties of aglucosyltransferase involved in crocin synthesis. Plant Sci. 153 (2000)55—63.