title: Alkaloids
author: Manfred Hesse
description: "...an insightful treatment of a complex subject and a valuable reference source..."(Chemistry in Britain, October 2002)
zlib_text: List of Figures
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  Contemporary scheme of morphine.
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  Some alkaloids isolated by pharmaceutists Pierre Joseph Pelletier and
  Joseph Beinamé Caventou during 1817–1821.
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  Schemes of taxol, vinblastine, vincristine and vincamine
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  An example of a true alkaloid
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  5
  An example of protoalkaloids
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  An example of a pseudoalkaloid
  12
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  The raw extraction of quinolizidine alkaloids
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  l-tryptophan with its aromatic side chain
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  The devil’s-pepper genus, Rauwolfia serpentina
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  l-phenylalanine is a precursor
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  l-ornithine is an important precursor
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  l-tyrosine, with its aromatic side chain
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  l-anthranilic acid is a precursor
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  14
  l-histidine is a precursor
  24
  15
  l-ornithine and l-nicotinic acids are precursors
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  l-lysine is a precursor
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  (a) Structure of seed testa of the Washington lupine
  (b) Alkaloidal Lupinus polyphyllus Lindl.
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  Jervine, cyclopamine and protoveratrine structures.
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  Basic alkaloids of mushrooms.
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  Ergotamine and LSD
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  Second