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The Chemistry and Biology of Isoquinoline Alkaloids (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1985)
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The Chemistry and Biology of Isoquinoline Alkaloids (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1985)
Series: Proceedings in Life Sciences
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Isoquinolines form one of the largest groups of plant alkaloids and
they in clude a number of valuable clinical agents such as codeine,
morphine, eme tine and tubocurarine. Research into different
aspects of isoquinolines con tinues in profusion, attracting the
talents of botanists, chemists, bioche mists, analysts, pharmacists
and pharmacologists. Many of these aspects are of an
interdisciplinary nature, and in April 1984, The Phytochemical
Society of Europe arranged a 3-day symposium on The Chemistry and
Bi ology of Isoquinoline Alkaloids in order to provide a forum for
scientists of differing disciplines who are united by a common
interest in this one class of natural product. Each chapter in this
volume is based on a lecture given at this symposium. Attempts have
been made to make the aims and objectives, experimental findings
and conclusions reached, intelligible to scientists of differing
backgrounds. The introductory chapter, which is mainly based on a
historical discus sion, stresses that plants containing
isoquinolines have proved to be both a boon and a curse to mankind.
The Opium Poppy, Papaver somniferum, produces the medicinally used
alkaloids morphine, codeine, noscapine and papaverine whilst it
also continues to provide drugs of abuse, particularly morphine and
its readily prepared O, O-diacetyl derivative, heroin. Numer ous
other alkaloids have been isolated from other members of the
Papaver acea, and a knowledge of their presence and distribution
within the various species has proved a useful adjunct to
systematic botanical studies."
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