Charles Joseph Tanret (9 August 1847 in Joinville, France – 10 July 1917 in Paris) was a French pharmacist and chemist.
He notably studied the chemistry of sugars, reporting his observations of the mutarotation of glucose in 1895.[1] He also identified quebrachitol in 1887 from the bark of Aspidosperma quebracho.[2]
His son Georges was also a pharmacist, specialist of plant chemistry. Georges Tanret identified an alkaloid (galegine) from Galega officinalis that was evaluated in clinical trials in patients with diabetes in the 1920s and 1930s.[3][4]
References edit
- ^ Sur les modifications moléculaires du glucose. C. Tanret, Comptes Rendus 1895; 120: 1060–1062
- ^ McCance, RA; Lawrence, RD (1933). "An investigation of quebrachitol as a sweetening agent for diabetics". Biochem J. 27 (4): 986–9. doi:10.1042/bj0270986. PMC 1252976. PMID 16745234.
- ^ Simonnet H, Tanret G. Sur les propietes hypoglycemiantes du sulfate de galegine. Bull Soc Chim Biol Paris 1927
- ^ Bailey CJ, Campbell IW, Chan JCN, Davidson JA, Howlett HCS, Ritz P (eds). 2007. Metformin: the Gold Standard. A Scientific handbook; Chichester: Wiley. Chapter 1: Galegine and antidiabetic plants
External links edit
- Charles Joseph Tanret on Société d'Histoire de la Pharmacie website (French)
- Charles Joseph Tanret on fr.wikipedia.com (French)
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