Also known as 3,4-dihydro-8-hydroxy-3-methyl-1H-2-benzopyran-1-one, 3,4-Dihydro-8-hydroxy-3-methyl-(1H)-2-benzopyran-1-one, 3,4-Dihydro-8-hydroxy-3-methylisocoumarin, Ochracin, 8-hydroxy-3-methylisochroman-1-one, (±)-mellein
Mellein is a dihydroisocoumarin, a phenolic compound produced by the mold species Aspergillus ochraceus.
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Mellein is a dihydroisocoumarin, a phenolic compound produced by the mold species Aspergillus ochraceus.
== Derivatives == 4-Hydroxymellein is also produced by Aspergillus ochraceus.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).