Mesquitol is a flavan-3-ol, a type of flavonoid.
Prosopis juliflora, an invasive New World mesquite now found in Kenya, has unusually high levels of (âÂÂ)-mesquitol in its heartwood.
Mesquitol, with its pyrogallol-type A-ring, is more susceptible to quinone formation at this ring, leading to arylâÂÂaryl bond formation at carbon 5. The structural moieties constitute the proteracacinidin class of proanthocyanidins. Mesquitol-(5âÂÂ8)-catechin atropisomers can be isolated from Prosopis glandulosa.