Tenual is a natural product derived from ''

Asphodeline tenuior ''Asphodeline tenuior'', the thin asphodeline, is a species of plant in the family Asphodelaceae, subfamily Asphodeloideae.Stevens, P.F. (2001 onwards)"Asphodeloideae" ''Angiosperm Phylogeny Website''. Retrieved 2016-06-10. It is native to the Ca ...

''. It is a 3-benzoxepin derivative with

methoxy In organic chemistry, a methoxy group is the functional group consisting of a methyl group bound to oxygen. This alkoxy group has the formula . On a benzene ring, the Hammett equation classifies a methoxy substituent at the ''para'' position as ...

methyl In organic chemistry, a methyl group is an alkyl derived from methane, containing one carbon atom bonded to three hydrogen atoms, having chemical formula . In formulas, the group is often abbreviated as Me. This hydrocarbon group occurs in many ...

hydroxymethyl The hydroxymethyl group is the name for a substituent with the structural formula −CH2−OH. It consists of a methylene bridge (−CH2− unit) bonded to a hydroxyl group (−OH). This makes the hydroxymethyl group an alcohol. It has the identic ...

, and carbaldehyde side chains.

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{{Reflist Benzoxepines Hydroxymethyl compounds Methoxy compounds Aromatic aldehydes