
%0 Journal Article
%A Beveridge, RJ 
%A Ford, CW 
%A Richards, GN 
%T Polysaccharides of tropical pasture herbage.  VII. Identification of a new pinitol galactoside from seeds of <I>Trifolium subterraneum</I> (subterranean clover) and analysis of several pasture legume seeds for cyclohexitols and their galactosides
%J Australian Journal of Chemistry
%D 1977/07/01
%V 30
%N 7
%P 1583-1590
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/CH9771583
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/CH9771583 
%X A pinitol galactoside isolated from ethanol extracts of seeds of T. subterraneum has been shown to be 1D-2-O-(&#945;-D-galactopyranosyl)-4-O- methy-chiro-inosito (1). The structure is based on successive periodate oxidation, borohydride reduction, hydrolysis and acetylation (Smith degradation), yielding the tetraacetate of 2-O-methyl-L-xylitol. The seeds of 39 pasture legumes from 13 different genera and 26 species have been analysed by gas chromatography for (1), myo-inositol, D-(+)- pinitol and galactinol. 
