A salt or ester formed when coumarilic acid or related coumaric compounds react with a base or alcohol.
From coumaric (relating to coumarin) + -ate suffix (denoting salts and esters in chemistry). The compound is formed through chemical reaction and modification.
Coumarates appear naturally in plants as part of their cell wall structures—they're like nature's way of gluing plant cells together with aromatic compounds!
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