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THE alkaloid dioscorine, C13H19O2N, was first isolated in 1894 by Boorsma1 from Dioscorea hirsuta, Bl., and obtained in a crystalline condition by Schutte2. On the basis of degradation experiments, Gorter3 in 1911 suggested that the alkaloid belonged to the tropane group, and proposed the following structure:
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Boorsma, Meded. uits Lands Plant, 13 (1894).
Schutte, Nederl. Tijdschr. Pharm., 9, 131 (1897); Chem. Zent., (ii), 130 (1897).
Gorter, Ann. Jard. Bot. Buit., Series 2, Supp. 3, 385 ; Rec. trav. chim. Pays-Bas, 30, 161 (1911).
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PINDER, A. An Alkaloid of Dioscorea hispida, Dennst. Nature 168, 1090 (1951). https://doi.org/10.1038/1681090a0
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