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Pyrrolidine, Piperidine, and Pyridine Alkaloids

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There are only a few simple pyrrolidine alkaloids found in nature, although pyrrolidine (or pyrrole) rings combined into larger structures are relatively common (e.g., in the indole alkaloids). Methylated derivatives of proline or hydroxyproline could be called alkaloids but are here placed with protoalkaloids in Chapter 2; β-methylpyrroline is considered with the terpenoid alkaloids in Chapter 13.

My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains

My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,

Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains

One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk:

Ode to a Nightingale, John Keats

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Robinson, T. (1968). Pyrrolidine, Piperidine, and Pyridine Alkaloids. In: The Biochemistry of Alkaloids. Molecular Biology Biochemistry and Biophysics / Molekularbiologie Biochemie und Biophysik, vol 3. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-01015-0_4

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