Research
Department of Natural Product Chemistry
Teaching staffs
| Name, Position | Email *convert [a] to @ |
Tel | Fax |
|---|---|---|---|
| Takashi Tanaka, Ph. D. Professor |
t-tanaka[a]nagasaki-u.ac.jp | +81-95-819-2432 | |
| Yoshinori Saito, Ph.D. Associate Professor | saiyoshi[a]nagasaki-u.ac.jp | +81-95-819-2433 | |
| Yosuke Matsuo, Ph.D. Assistant Professor | y-matsuo[a]nagasaki-u.ac.jp | +81-95-819-2434 |
Research interests
- Studies on structure, metabolism, function, and application of plant polyphenols
- Investigation of intra-specific diversity of terpenoids in higher plants
- Studies on structures and production mechanism of black tea polyphenols
- Studies on the stereochemistry of plant polyphenols assisted by computational chemistry
Selected publications
- Liu Z-B, Matsuo Y, Saito Y, Huang Y-L, Li D-P, Tanaka T: Identification of unstable ellagitannin metabolites in the leaves of Quercus dentata by chemical derivatization. Molecules 28: 1246, 2023
- Hu Y, Saito Y, Matsuo Y, Gong X, Tanaka T: New benzofuran oligomers from the roots of Eupatorium heterophyllum collected in China. Molecules 27: 8856, 2022
- Hu Y, Saito Y, Matsuo Y, Gong X, Tanaka T: Two new dimeric benzofuran diastereomers from the roots of Eupatorium heterophyllum. Tetrahedron Lett 102: 153924, 2022
- Tanaka T, Yasumatsu M, Hirotani M, Matsuo Y, Li N, Zhu H-T, Saito Y, Ishimaru K, Zhang Y-J: New degradation mechanism of black tea pigment theaflavin involving condensation with epigallocatechin-3-O-gallate. Food Chem 370: 131326, 2022
- Yamashita T, Matsuo Y, Saito Y, Tanaka T: Formation of dehydrohexahydroxydiphenoyl esters by the oxidative coupling of galloyl esters in an aqueous medium involved in ellagitannin biosynthesis. Chem Asian J 16: 1735-1740, 2021
Works
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