Jack Arthur Masquelier (1922-2009), sometimes incorrectly called Jacques Masquelier, was a French scientist. In July 1948 he published his doctoral thesis based on his successful isolation and chemical description of the phytonutrient we know today as
oligomeric proanthocyanidins
Condensed tannins (proanthocyanidins, polyflavonoid tannins, catechol-type tannins, pyrocatecollic type tannins, non-hydrolyzable tannins or flavolans) are polymers formed by the condensation of flavans. They do not contain sugar residues.
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or OPCs. That same year he filed a patent for the industrial method of producing the first botanical product based on OPCs.
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French biochemists
1922 births
2009 deaths