PCOG Tanins Flashcards
Complex polyphenolic compunds
Tanins
Hard to isolate
No crystals
Tanins
Antimicrobial
Anti diarrheal
Tanins
Components of Universal Antidote
Activated Charcoal
Magnessium Oxide
Tannic Acid
Two types of tannins
Nonhydrolyzable
Hydrolyzable/True tanins
What yields positive and negative in Goldbeater skin test.
+True tannins
-Pseudotannins
Flavonoids
Non hydrolyzable
Calvin Cycle
Needs the light reactions
Bluish black
Hydorolizable
Greenish black
Condensed tannins
Goldbeaters skin test procedure
Soak a small piece of goldbeaters skin in 2% HCl rinse with D.H20 and place in soln to be tested for 5 min. Wash with D.h20 and transfer to a 1% soln of FeSo4
Positive result of goldbeater skin test
Brown or black on the skin denotes the presence of tannins
Definition of goldbeaters skin test
Is a membrane prepared from the intestine of ox and behaves simmilarly to an untanned hidd
2 types of true tannins
Hydrolysable and non-hydrolysable
Hyrolysable tannins are
Ester of sugars and phenolic compounds
Hydrolysable tannins on heating with Hydrochloric or sulphuric acids yield
Gallic acid or Ellagic acid
Examples of hydrolysable tannins
Myrobalan
Bahera
Witch hazel
terminalia chebula
Combretaceae
Myrobalan
Terminalia belerica
Combretaceae
Bahera
Hamamelidaceae
Witch hazel
Gallic acid tannins
Gallotanins
Ellagic acid
Ellagitannins
Sources of gallotanins
Rhubarb
Gall
Clove
Ellagitanins
Sources
Pomegranate
Eucalyptus