Open AccessThe deadly weed: Nicotine and tobacco dependence
Author(s) -
Robert West
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
the biochemist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.126
H-Index - 7
eISSN - 1740-1194
pISSN - 0954-982X
DOI - 10.1042/bio02405015
Subject(s) - nicotine , alkaloid , pyrrolidine , weed , ring (chemistry) , chemistry , stereochemistry , botany , biology , organic chemistry , neuroscience
Nicotine is an alkaloid that is derived exclusively from the plants of the tobacco family. Of its two isomers, S-nicotine is by far the most common and biologically potent, and the much rarer R-nicotine has only a weak biological activity. Nicotine has a simple structure that consists of a pyridine and pyrrolidine ring (Figure 1).
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