The molecule is a member of the class of benzyl alcohols resulting from the formal reduction of the aldehyde group of pyriculol. Produced by the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae. It has a role as a fungal metabolite. It is a heptaketide, a tetrol, a secondary allylic alcohol, a homoallylic alcohol, a member of benzyl alcohols and a member of phenols. It derives from a pyriculol.
(1E,3R,4S,5E)-1-[3-hydroxy-2-(hydroxymethyl)phenyl]hepta-1,5-diene-3,4-diol