Scopolamine, chemical structure

FIG. 18 Chemical structures of (a) acetylcholine chloride, (b) carbamylcholine chloride, (c) carba-myl-y8-methylcholine chloride, (d) acetyl-/i-methylcholine chloride, (e) tetramethylammonium chloride, (f) tetraethylamonium chloride, (g) succinylcholine chloride, (h) hexamethonium chloride, (i) scopolamine hydrobromide, 0 atropine sulfate, (k) homatropine hydrochloride, and (1) tubocurar-ine chloride. 

The octanol-water partition coefficient (Kow), characterizing distribution of a non-ionized compound between an octanol (o) and an immiscible aqueous (w) layer, may function as a measure of lipophilicity, that is often listed as its logarithmic value (log P). Therefore, log P may be used as a predictor of extractability in LLE. Table 1 presents log P values of TA calculated by the Molinspiration software [25] using SMILES notation for chemical structures. The SMILES concept is addressed in the next section [26], Conformity of calculated (calc.) and experimental (exp.) log P values is satisfying, as exemplarily shown for atropine (1.83 exp. [27] 1.77 calc.) and scopolamine (0.98 exp. [22] 1.05 calc.). 

The limited quantities of teloidine so far available have precluded an investigation of its structure. However, from the marked similarity of its chemical reactions with those of tropine and oscine and from the association of meteloidine with atropine and 1-scopolamine in Datura meteloides, teloidine was considered to be one of the stereoisomers of the trihydroxytropane, XCI. This has been confirmed by synthesis. Teloidinone, the Cj-ketone of teloidine, has been synthesized (3) (mesotartaric aldehyde, methylamine, and acetonedicarboxylic acid) under physiological conditions. Teloidine and an isomer were formed in the reduction of this ketone. 

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