Abstract: | Eight proanthocyanidins have been isolated from the roots ofPolygonum coriarum. The structures of two dimers, two trimers, including an acylglycosylated one, a tetramer, and three oligomers have been determined. All the compounds isolated were polymers and copolymers of (-)epigallocatechin, (-)epigallocatechin gallate and (-)epicatechin with C-4![beta](/content/prm4h115h8835q14/xxlarge946.gif) C-8 interflavan bonds.Institute of the Chemistry of Plant Substances. Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Fax (3712) 62 73 48. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 2, pp. 233–244, March–April, 1994. |