BERGENIN, A C-GLYCOPYRANOSYL DERIVATIVE OF 4-0-METHYLGALLIC ACID
BERGENIN, A C-GLYCOPYRANOSYL DERIVATIVE OF 4-0-METHYLGALLIC ACID
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DOI:
10.1039/jr9580002231
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发表时间:
1958-01-01
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HAYNES, LJ
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HAY, JE;HAYNES, LJ
2232 Hay and Haynes: Bergenirt, a C-Glycopyranosyl explain the resistance to full acetylation and was criticised by Shimokariyama who proposed the pentahydroxylic structure (11). The evidence for this appears to be based entirely on the fact that bergenin readily reduces Fehling's solution. ShimokGriyama showed that the reducing power of bergenin is comparable with that of glucose, which he explained by formation of a keto-hexose side-chain in ring-opened bergenin (V). It is to be expected from this that di-O-methylbergenin would still possess appreciable reducing power. This is not so, and therefore the reducing properties of bergenin itself must be due solely to the presence of the two free phenolic groups and not to a potential reducing group in the side-chain. Moreover, ring-opened di-O-methylbergenin does not form a derivative with phenylhydrazine. Since di-0-methylbergenin shows no reducing properties, neither structure (I) nor (11) can be correct, since structure (I) should also give the ketohexose (V) on opening of the lactone ring.The molecular formula C,, H,, O,, H, O proposed by Tschitschibabin has been confirmed by analysis and by an X-ray molecular-weight determination which gave the value 344 & 4 (required, 346). The carbonyl stretching frequencies in the infrared spectra of bergenin and a number of its derivatives are given in Table 1. It is noteworthy that the