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‘Leuco-cyanidin’ and Epicatechin

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Bate-Smith and Swain1 have recently come to the conclusion that the so-called condensed, ‘catechin’, tannins are in many instances identical with the ‘leuco-anthocyanins’ described by Robinson and Robinson2. Recent work here has suggested that the catechins and ‘leuco-anthocyanins’ are extremely closely related.

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  1. Bate-Smith, E. C., and Swain, T. [Chem. and Indust., 377 (1953)].

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FORSYTH, W. ‘Leuco-cyanidin’ and Epicatechin. Nature 172, 726–727 (1953). https://doi.org/10.1038/172726a0

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