pinitol

Noun

pinitol (countable and uncountable, plural pinitols)

1. A cyclitol with antidiabetic activity, first identified in the sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana).
   • Galactosylononitol and galactosyl pinitol A could also substitute for galactinol in the synthesis of stachyose from raffinose (Peterbaur and Richter, 1998; Hoch et al, 1999; Fig. 5.2, equations 10 and 11).2001, Ryszard J. Górecki, “5: Seed Physiology and Biochemistry”, in C. L. Hedley, editor, Carbohydrates in Grain Legume Seeds: Improving Nutritional Quality and Agronomic Characteristics, CABI...
   • The reader can once more appreciate the lack of suitable language to describe these design principles; the thought process that led to the enantiodivergent synthesis of pinitols was far less arduous than the attempts to verbalize it.2007, Tomas Hudlicky, Josephine W. Reed, The Way of Synthesis: Evolution of Design and Methods for Natural Products, Wiley, page 149