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    Name Structure Biological Significance

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    This document provides a table summarizing 14 different heterocyclic structures, examples of compounds that contain each structure, and their biological significance. Some key structures mentioned include pyrrole (found in hygrine and stachydrine), pyridine (found in lobeline, nicotine, and piperine), tropane (found in cocaine, atropine, and hyoscyamine), and isoquinoline (found in morphine, emetine, and papaverine).

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    This document provides a table summarizing 14 different heterocyclic structures, examples of compounds that contain each structure, and their biological significance. Some key structures mentioned include pyrrole (found in hygrine and stachydrine), pyridine (found in lobeline, nicotine, and piperine), tropane (found in cocaine, atropine, and hyoscyamine), and isoquinoline (found in morphine, emetine, and papaverine).

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    This document provides a table summarizing 14 different heterocyclic structures, examples of compounds that contain each structure, and their biological significance. Some key structures mentioned include pyrrole (found in hygrine and stachydrine), pyridine (found in lobeline, nicotine, and piperine), tropane (found in cocaine, atropine, and hyoscyamine), and isoquinoline (found in morphine, emetine, and papaverine).

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    Name Structure Biological Significance

    Adrenergic agent-used
    Ephedrine for asthma and hay fever

    Colchicine Relieves gout

    Erythromyci
    n Antibiotic

    Used in the treatment of


    ovarian cancer, breast
    Taxol cancer and non-small cell
    (Paclitaxel) lung cancer
    No
    . Heterocycle Example

    Hygrine, Stachydrine
    Pyrrole and Pyrrolidine

    1.

    Senecionine, Symphitine, Echimidine,


    Seneciphylline

    Pyrrolizidine

    2.

    Lobeline, Nicotine, Piperine, Conine,


    Trigonelline
    Pyridine and Piperidine

    3.

    Cocaine, Atropine, Hyoscyamine, Hyoscine


    Tropane (piperidine/N-
    methyl-pyrrolidine)

    4.

    5. Quinoline Quinine, Quinidine, Cinchonine, Cinchonidine


    Morphine, Emetine, Papaverine, Narcotine,
    Tubocurarine, Codeine

    Isoquinoline

    6.

    Aporphine (reduced Boldine


    isoquinoline/naphthalene)

    7.

    Lupanine, Cytisine, Laburnine, Sparteine

    Quinolizidine

    8.

    9. Indole or Benzopyrole Ergometrine, Vinblastine, Vincristine,


    Strychnine, Brucine, Ergotamine, Yohimbine,
    Reserpine, Serpentine, Physostigmine
    Castanospermine, Swainsonine

    Indolizidine

    10.

    Pilocarpine, Pilosine

    Imidazole or glyoxaline

    11.

    Caffeine, Theobromine

    Purine
    (pyrimidine/imidazole)

    12.

    Conessine, Solanidine

    Steroidal (some combined


    13. as glycosides)*

    14. Terpenoid* Aconitine, lycaconitine, Aconine

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