The Alkaloids, Volume

This chapter was not published last year in view of an extremely detailed (almost 100 page) review on tropanes in the Manske series The Alkaloids . Volume XVI, by R. L. Clarke. The present chapter is intended to avoid any overlap with Clarke s material. 

Here, we will discuss the general strategies followed in the isolation, identification, and structure elucidation of alkaloids. The various methods will be briefly discussed separately, with special reference to the applications for alkaloid analysis. We will not try to give a complete review of all work done on the structure elucidation of alkaloids. For reviews on the different classes of alkaloids we refer to the series The Alkaloids, Volumes 1-5 edited by Manske and Holmes (1950-1955), Volumes 6-16 by Manske (1955-1977), Volumes 17-20 by Manske and Rodrigo (1979-1981) and later volumes by Brossi (1983-1992), and Alkaloids Chemical and Biological Perspectives edited by Pelletier (since 1983). Furthermore, numerous review articles on different groups of alkaloids have been published particularly on isoquinoline alkaloids a series of reviews has appeared in the Journal of... 

Bentley, K. W. The Alkaloids (Volume I). London Oxford University Press, 1957. 

McCorkindale NJ. (3-Phenetylamines and the isoquinoline alkaloids. In Grundon MF, editor. The alkaloids. Volume 7. Specialis periodical report. London Chemical Society 1977. p 92-151. 

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