1991 Volume 39 Issue 9 Pages 2264-2270
The structures of three new hydrolyzable tannin oligomers, nobotanins B (7), C (20) and E (21), which were isolated from the leaves of Tibouchina semidecandra COGN. (Melastomataceae), have been elucidated on the basis of spectral and chemical evidence. Nobotanin B is an isomer of a co-existing dimer, nobotanin F, and nobotanins C and E are trimers possessing the nobotanin B moiety as a partial structure.