Terpenoid Derivatives and the Supporting Moiety Theory

Certain of the recent molecular modification studies employing terpenoids can be discussed, in a formal sense at least, within the context of the supporting moiety theory [52, 53] since the terpenoid unit is linked to a radical moiety well recognised as being associated with certain pharmacological actions. 

Of the terpenoid derivatives containing a masked jS-ethanolamine system (the stripped down drug molecule of Gero [1219,1220]) thymoxamine (CIX) has been shown [1221] to exhibit a competitive blockade of the adrenergic 

The bomane skeleton has also been employed [1239] to prepare a series of stereoisomeric analogues of acetylcholine of types CX and CXI, in which it 

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