Veratrole alcohol (veratryl alcohol) is an organic compound related to veratrole and also to benzyl alcohol.
It can be obtained by reduction of veratraldehyde.
[2] Veratrole alcohol is the raw material for the synthesis of cyclotriveratrylene which is used in host–guest chemistry.
It is a secondary metabolite of some white rot fungi and is believed to play a role in their degradation of lignin.
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