Bakerian Lecture. —The molecular structure of strychnine and brucine
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- 3 February 1931
- journal article
- Published by The Royal Society in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Containing Papers of a Mathematical and Physical Character
- Vol. 130 (814) , 431-452
- https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1931.0015
Abstract
The present position in the development of the chemistry of the strychnos alkaloids has been reached only after much stumbling by the way, and, in view of the confusion which anything but the most attentive study of the whole of the literature must beget, the time seemed ripe for a survey of the salient facts and the statement of the argument which can be based upon them. Strychnine was isolated from the seeds of Strychnos Nux-vomica by Pelletier and Caventou in 1817 and brucine by the same chemists in 1819; the composition of these bases was correctly ascertained by Regnault.Keywords
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