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Tony Swain (chemist)

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Tony Swain was a chemist known for his definition of a plant polyphenols with Bate-Smith, Haslam and White, which includes specific structural characteristics common to all phenolics having a tanning property. It is referred to as the White–Bate-Smith–Swain–Haslam (WBSSH) definition.[1]

Works

  • Chemistry in Evolution & Systematics: Plenary Lectures Presented at the International Symposium, by Tony Swain, Butterworths, 1973
  • Secondary Compounds as Protective Agents - Annual Review of Plant Physiology Vol. 28: 479-501, 1977, doi:10.1146/annurev.pp.28.060177.002403

References

  1. ^ Why bother with Polyphenols, by Stéphane Quideau, on Groupe Polyphenols website[self-published source?]
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