Plants make a surprising intermediate en route to quinine and cinchonidine ...

Characteristic features of plants, such as their active ingredients or flower color, may have developed through very ...

In the realm of organic chemistry, one class of compounds has captured the scientific community's attention for decades - alkaloids. These naturally occurring compounds are known for their diverse ...

Alkaloids, which include caffeine and morphine, are a large class of pharmacologically active plant compounds that are often difficult to chemically synthesize. Incorporation of benzylisoquinoline ...

Enzymes that play a crucial role in the production of the malaria drug quinine and other important cinchona alkaloids have ...

Researchers report the first successful microbial biosynthesis of the tropane alkaloids hyoscyamine and scopolamine, a class of neuromuscular blockers naturally found in plants in the nightshade ...

Since the early 1800s, practitioners of organic chemistry have been fascinated with a group of plant-derived compounds called "alkaloids." Alkaloids contain at least one nitrogen atom among other ...

A new metal–organic framework (MOF), APF-80, enables the crystalline sponge method to capture and analyze nucleophilic compounds. Alkaloids, a diverse group of biologically active compounds, usually ...

An Australian-owned company faces fines of up to $10 million after pleading guilty to criminal cartel conduct over the supply of a major pharmaceutical drug. Alkaloids of Australia has pleaded guilty ...