furocoumarin

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furocoumarin (plural furocoumarins)

  1. (organic chemistry) Any organic compound composed of a coumarin fused to a furan, but especially any derivative of the psoralen skeleton or its angular isomer angelicin
Structures of angelicin, xanthotoxin, bergapten and nodekenetin
Structures of angelicin, xanthotoxin, bergapten and nodekenetin