78185-34-9Relevant articles and documents
NATURAL (-)-FISETINIDOL-(4,8)-(-)-EPICATECHIN PROFISETINIDINS
Steynberg, Jan P.,Burger, Johann F. W.,Malan, Johannes C. S.,Cronje, Annamarie,Young, Desmond A.,Ferreira, Daneel
, p. 275 - 277 (1990)
The natural occurrence of the first profisetinidins associated with (-)-epicatechin is demonstrated in the heartwood of three legumes. 1H-NMR spectroscopy at 300 MHz permits assesments of the relative abundance of the predominant rotamers in each of the heptamethyl ether diacetates of the (-)-fisetinidol-(4α,8) and (4β,8)-(-)-epicatechins at ambient temperatures.
Synthesis of Condensed Tannins. Part 4. A Direct Biomimetic Approach to - and -Biflavanoids
Botha, Jacobus, J.,Ferreira, Daneel,Roux, David G.
, p. 1235 - 1245 (2007/10/02)
The generation of flavanyl-4-carbo-cations from flavan-3,4-diols and their condensation with nucleophilic flavan-3-ols to form - and -biflavanoids at ambient temperatures and mildly acidic aqueous conditions apparently simulates the initial step in condensed tannin formation in a number of natural sources.The stereospecificity (or stereoselectivity) of the reaction is conditioned mainly by the 2,3-cis or 2,3-trans stereochemistry of the parent flavan-3,4-diol, but also by the nuclephilicity of the flavan-3-ol, and its regiospecific (or regioselective) course by steric factors arising from variation in substitution of the receptive A-ring of the flavan-3-ol.