A member of the class of furans that is furan-3(2H)-one carrying additional ethyl, hydroxy and methyl substituents at positions 2, 4 and 5 respectively. A key aroma compound in soy sauce and fish sauce.
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This entity has been manually annotated by the ChEBI Team.
2-ethyl-4-hydroxy-5-methyl-3(2H)-furanone
(CHEBI:137995)
has role
Saccharomyces cerevisiae metabolite
(CHEBI:75772)
2-ethyl-4-hydroxy-5-methyl-3(2H)-furanone
(CHEBI:137995)
is a
cyclic ketone
(CHEBI:3992)
2-ethyl-4-hydroxy-5-methyl-3(2H)-furanone
(CHEBI:137995)
is a
enol
(CHEBI:33823)
2-ethyl-4-hydroxy-5-methyl-3(2H)-furanone
(CHEBI:137995)
is a
furans
(CHEBI:24129)