delphinidin Chem.
(dɛlˈfɪnɪdɪn)
[a. G. delphinidin (R. Willstätter 1914, in Sitzungsber. preuss. Akad. d. Wissenschaften 405), f. delphinium + -idin.]
An anthocyanidin which is usu. isolated as the chloride, C15H11O7Cl, and which combined as glycosides forms many plant pigments.
| 1914 Chem. Abstr. VIII. 3421 The anthocyan of larkspur (delphinin) on hydrolysis gave 2 mols. dextrose, 2 mols. p-HOC6H4CO2H and 1 mol. delphinidin, C15H11O7Cl. 1937 Thorpe's Dict. Appl. Chem. (ed. 4) I. 381/2 The anthocyanins..fall into three groups represented by the pelargonidin, cyanidin, and delphinidin types. 1946 Nature 17 Aug. 240/1 A delphinidin flower pigment..in an acid cell sap is normally pink but is blue in the presence of excess aluminium. 1963 F. M. Dean Naturally Occurring Oxygen Ring Compounds xiii. 399 It is now known that violanin is a delphinidin-3-rhamnoglucoside combined in some way with p-coumaric acid. |