A member of the BENZODIOXOLES that is a constituent of several VOLATILE OILS, notably SASSAFRAS oil. It is a precursor in the synthesis of the insecticide PIPERONYL BUTOXIDE and the drug N-methyl-3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamine (MDMA).
Safrole has been studied across 15 research domains including 🫁 Liver & Detox, 🔬 Oncology, 🔬 Inflammation, 🦴 Bone & Joint, 😴 Sleep. The primary research focus is 🫁 Liver & Detox with 25% of studies addressing this area.
The following compounds share molecular targets with Safrole, based on binding affinity data from BindingDB and ChEMBL. Sorted by shared target overlap.
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