Examinations were made on the chemical structure of aceritannin (acertannin), an oligogalloylated, crystalline tannin, C
20H
20O
13·2H
2O, m.p. 164∼166°, [α]
12D +20°(Me
2CO and EtOH, each), which was first isolated by Perkin and Uyeda from the leaves of Acer Ginnala MAXIM. It has now been proved that aceritannin should be formulated as 3, 6-di-O-galloyl-1, 5-anhydro-D-glucitol, i.e., no other than 1-deoxy derivative of 3, 6-di-O-galloyl-D-glucopyranose, a compound first isolated by Freudenberg (Ber., 52, 1238 (1919)) as one of the partial hydrolysis products of chebulinic acid, and later, unequivocally synthesized by Schmidt and Schach (Ann., 571, 29(1951)).
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