pinitol

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Structure diagram of D-pinitol
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pinitol (countable and uncountable, plural pinitols)

  1. (organic chemistry) A cyclitol with antidiabetic activity, first identified in the sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana).
    • 2001, Ryszard J. Górecki, “5: Seed Physiology and Biochemistry”, in C. L. Hedley, editor, Carbohydrates in Grain Legume Seeds: Improving Nutritional Quality and Agronomic Characteristics, CABI Publishing, page 126:
      Galactosylononitol and galactosyl pinitol A could also substitute for galactinol in the synthesis of stachyose from raffinose (Peterbaur and Richter, 1998; Hoch et al, 1999; Fig. 5.2, equations 10 and 11).
    • 2007, Tomas Hudlicky, Josephine W. Reed, The Way of Synthesis: Evolution of Design and Methods for Natural Products, Wiley, page 149:
      The reader can once more appreciate the lack of suitable language to describe these design principles; the thought process that led to the enantiodivergent synthesis of pinitols was far less arduous than the attempts to verbalize it.
    • 2014, T. K. Lim, Edible Medicinal and Non Medicinal Plants, Volume 8: Flowers, Springer, page 492:
      The use of B. spectabilis leaves as an antidiabetic led to the isolation of its hypoglycaemic principle, pinitol, from the leaves (Narayanan et al. 1987). Pinitol was determined to be a methyl ester of chiro-inositol and elucidated as 3-O-methyl1,2,4-cis-3,5,6-trans-hexahydroxycyclohexanol.

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