Benzophenonetetracarboxylic acid (3,3',4,4'-Benzophenonetetracarboxylic acid) is utilized in the preparation of high-performance polyimides and serves as a curing agent for epoxy resins.

Apigenin triacetate is a metabolite of F. graminearum. Apigenin triacetate can be downregulated in F. graminearum by chitosan treatment. Apigenin triacetate derives from apigenin.

alpha-Ketoglutarate is a key molecule in the TCA cycle. It can be produced from glutamate by oxidative deamination via glutamate dehydrogenase and as a product of pyridoxal phosphate-dependent transamination reactions (mediated by branched-chain amino acid transaminases) in which glutamate is a common amino donor.