Piturin

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Piturin is the historical name for a mixture of the two tropane alkaloids scopolamine and hyoscyamine .

Pituri shrub ( Duboisia hopwoodii )

It was isolated for the first time from the leaves of the Pituri shrub Duboisia hopwoodii independently of one another in 1879 by AW Gerrard and M. Petit , considered to be a single substance and described as identical to nicotine . In the specialist literature, various authors have also published physical data and chemical properties, but these ultimately depended on the composition of the particular mixture examined.

literature

  • Eckart Eich: Solanaceae and Convolvulaceae: Secondary Metabolites - Biosynthesis, Chemotaxonomy, Biological and Economic Significance. , Springer Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-540-74540-2 ( limited preview in the Google book search), p. 91.
  • A. Ratsch, KJ Steadman, F. Bogossian: The pituri story: a review of the historical literature surrounding traditional Australian Aboriginal use of nicotine in Central Australia. In: Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine. Volume 6, 2010, p. 26, doi : 10.1186 / 1746-4269-6-26 , PMID 20831827 , PMC 2944156 (free full text).