Quercitannic acid

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Quercitannic acid
Names
Other names
Quercitannin
Oak bark tannin
Quercotannic acid
Querci-tannic acid
Querco-tannic acid
Identifiers
Properties
several, see text
Appearanceyellowish brown amorphous substance
Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa).

Quercitannic acid is one of the two forms of tannic acid [1] found in oak bark and leaves. [2] The other form is called gallotannic acid and is found in oak galls.

The quercitannic acid molecule is also present in quercitron, a yellow dye obtained from the bark of the Eastern black oak (Quercus velutina), a forest tree indigenous in North America. It is described as a yellowish brown amorphous substance. [3]

In 1838, Jöns Jacob Berzelius wrote that quercitannate is used to dissolve morphine. [4]

In 1865 in the fifth volume of "A dictionary of chemistry", Henry Watts wrote :

It exhibits with ferric salts the same reactions as gallotannic acid. It differs however from the latter in not being convertible into gallic acid, and not yielding pyrogallic acid by dry distillation. It is precipitated by sulfuric acid in red flocks. (Stenhouse, Ann. Ch. Pharm. xlv. 16.)
According to Rochleder (ibid lxiii. 202), the tannic acid of black tea is the same as that of oak-bark. [5]

In 1880, Etti gave for it the molecular formula C17H16O9. He described it as an unstable substance, having a tendency to give off water to form anhydrides (called phlobaphenes), one of which is called oak-red (C34H30O17). For him, it was not a glycoside. [6] [7]

In Allen’s "Commercial Organic Analysis", published in 1912, the formula given was C19H16O10. [8]

Other authors gave other molecular formulas like C28H26O15, while another formula found is C28H24O11. [9]

According to Lowe, two forms of the principle exist – one soluble in water, of the formula C28H28O14, and the other scarcely soluble, C28H24O12. Both are changed by the loss of water into oak red, C28H22O11. [10]

Quercitannic acid was for a time a standard used to assess the phenolic content in spices, given as quercitannic acid equivalent. [11]

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References

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  2. ↑ Quercus on www.henriettesherbal.com
  3. ↑ Quercitannic on everything2.com
  4. ↑ Traité de chimie, Volume 2. Jöns Jakob Berzelius (friherre) and Olof Gustaf Öngren, A. Wahlen et Cie., 1838
  5. ↑ A dictionary of chemistry, Volume 5, by Henry Watts, 1865
  6. ↑ Über die Gerbsäure der Eichenrinde. C. Etti, Monatshefte für Chemie, Volume 1, Number 1, 262-278, 1880 doi : 10.1007/BF01517069 (German)
  7. ↑ Zur Geschichte der Eichenrindegerbsäuren. C. Etti, Monatshefte für Chemie, Volume 4, Number 1, 512-530, 1883 doi : 10.1007/BF01517990 (German)
  8. ↑ The nature of tea infusions. Henry L. Smith, The Lancet, Volume 181, Issue 4673, 22 March 1913, Page 846, doi : 10.1016/S0140-6736(01)03766-7
  9. ↑ What are the historic and contemporary ethnobotanical uses of native Rhode Island wetlands plants? by Courtney Reckford, 1997
  10. ↑ A manual of organic materia medica and pharmacognosy - An introduction to the study of the vegetable Kingdom and the vegetable and animal drugs (Sayre's Materia Medica) fourth edition , by Lucius E Sayre
  11. ↑ Government standards for spices. Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association, Volume 12, Issue 12, pages 1091–1094, December 1923, doi : 10.1002/jps.3080121212
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