Abstract
Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the lupin alkaloids. The “lupin alkaloids” are found in a wide variety of plants and small trees, such as broom, lupin, gorse, and laburnum, which are used diversely in gardens, for fodder, and as sand-binders. The alkaloids as a group are toxic, but as individuals find some use in veterinary medicine and in insecticide preparations. Chemical similarity rather than plant distribution links these alkaloids, since most of them contain-in actual or modified form-the quinolizidine ring structure. This basic nucleus was unknown prior to its discovery in the common lupin alkaloids: lupinine, cytisine, sparteine, lupanine, and anagyrine. In this respect quinolizidine has a history similar to that of its ring homolog, pyrrolizidine, which was unknown prior to its discovery in the Senecio alkaloids.
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