Open AccessBakerian Lecture. —The molecular structure of strychnine and brucine
Publication year - 1931
Publication title -
proceedings of the royal society of london. series a, containing papers of a mathematical and physical character
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2053-9150
pISSN - 0950-1207
DOI - 10.1098/rspa.1931.0015
Subject(s) - brucine , strychnos , strychnine , confusion , argument (complex analysis) , chemistry , statement (logic) , mathematics , philosophy , epistemology , stereochemistry , psychology , alkaloid , biochemistry , psychoanalysis
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 ofStrychnos 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.