Abstract
A new hydrolysable tannin, elaeocarpusin, isolated from the leaves of Elaeocarpus sylvestris var. Ellipticus, has been characterized on the basis of chemical, spectroscopic, and X-ray analyses to be a novel ellagitannin in which a unique acid ester group probably derived by a condensation of a hexahydroxydiphenoyl group and dehydroascorbic acid is attached to the 2,4-positions of 1-O-galloyl- 3,6-(R)-hexahydroxydiphenoyl-D-glucopyranose (corilagin). This structural feature suggests the pos- sibility of the participation of dehydroascorbic acid as a co-enzyme in oxidative metabolism of the hexahydroxydiphenoyl group to the corresponding dehydro group.
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