pinitol

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Structure diagram of D-pinitol

Noun

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, 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.

Derived terms
  • D-pinitol
  • D-pinitol dehydrogenase

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