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GALLOCATECHIN, or 5′-hydroxycatechin, was first isolated from Japanese green tea by Tsujimura1 in 1934, and later shown by Bradfield and Bate-Smith2 to be l-epigallocatechin. d-Gallocatechin was obtained by Oshima (Osima)3 in 1939 from the bark of Formosan Casuarina equisetifolia and termed ‘casuarin’.
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Oshima, Y., Bull. Agric. Chem. Soc., Japan, 15, 109 (1939).
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Mayer, W., Symposium on Vegetable Tannins, Cambridge (1956), Society of Leather Trades' Chemists (in the press).
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ROUX, D. d-Gallocatechin from the Bark of Casuarina equisetifolia Linn.. Nature 179, 158–159 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1038/179158a0
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