Galloyl esters, oxidative metabolism

Hexahydroxydiphenoyl esters (2B, 2C). A very widely distributed metabolic fingerprint is that in which 3-penta-Q-galloyl-Erglucose (40) - it is assumed - is further transformed by oxidative coupling of pairs of adjacent galloyl ester groups (2, 3 and 4, 6) on the 3-D-glucopyra-nose core (Fig. 15, 2B). Some details of this pattern of metabolism were hinted at in earlier work by Hillis and Siekel, by Jurd, by Wilkins and Bohm, and Schmidt. 

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