aporphinoid
aporphinoid adjective: related to aporphine.
Adjective
aporphinoid (not comparable)
- Related to aporphine.
- Following the erroneous assignment of an aporphinoid structure to argemonine (15), various structures were considered based on degradative and spectral evidence (16,17).1950, Richard Helmuth Fred Manske, Henry Lavergne Holmes, The Alkaloids: Chemistry and Physiology, page 319
- The first hypothesis seems to be preferable if the aporphinoid or shikimate–glutamate routes are considered.1989, The Alkaloids: Chemistry and Pharmacology, page 64
Noun
aporphinoid (plural aporphinoids)
- An aporphinoid alkaloid; any of a group of related alkaloids that have aporphine as a core chemical substructure.
- In recent years, the pharmacological activity of aporphinoids has been the subject of a great deal of research in the field of natural products.(Can we date this quote?), (Please provide the book title or journal name)
- At this point in our research we decided to investigate whether the need to devise ad hoc solutions for each separate aporphinoid might be done away with by developing a new method of aporphinoid synthesis that combined generality, convergence, simplicity and efficiency.2012, T.I. Atta-ur-Rahman, Philip W. Le Quesne, Natural Products Chemistry III, page 238
Examples of aporphinoid in a sentence
- The aporphinoid alkaloids are widely distributed in plants and although most commonly found in the Papaveraceae they have also been isolated from the Araceae, Lauraceae and Monimiaceae.1998, K. W. Bentley, Isoquinoline Alkaloids, page 131:
- Both agonistic and antagonistic activities have been described, depending on the particular aporphinoid.2015, Reinhard Jetter, The Formation, Structure and Activity of Phytochemicals, page 51:
Forms of aporphinoid
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Origin of aporphinoid
From aporphine + -oid.
Questions about aporphinoid
- What does aporphinoid mean?
- Aporphinoid means related to aporphine.
- How do you use aporphinoid in a sentence?
- The aporphinoid alkaloids are widely distributed in plants and although most commonly found in the Papaveraceae they have also been isolated from the Araceae, Lauraceae and Monimiaceae.
- What part of speech is aporphinoid?
- Aporphinoid can be an adjective or a noun.
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