Kavalactone
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Lactone
In chemistry, a lactone is a cyclic ester which can be seen as the condensation product of an alcohol group -OH and a carboxylic acid group -COOH in the same molecule...
compounds found in the kava
Kava
Kava or kava-kava is a crop of the western Pacific....
shrub.
Compounds
At least 18 different kavalactones have been identified to date, with methysticinMethysticin
Methysticin is one of the six major kavalactones found in the kava plant....
being the first identified.
Analogues, such as ethysticin, have also been isolated.