pinitol
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A cyclitol with antidiabetic activity, first identified in the sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana).
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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)."
- "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."
- "The use of B. spectabilis leaves as an antidiabetic led to the isolation of its hypoglycaemic principle, pinitol, from the leaves (Narayanan et al. 1987). Pinitol was determined to be a methyl ester of chiro-inositol and elucidated as 3-O-methyl1,2,4-cis-3,5,6-trans-hexahydroxycyclohexanol."
Usage
Inflected Forms
Phrases
D-pinitol
D-pinitol dehydrogenase
Frequently Paired Words
D-pinitol dehydrogenase