Conhydrine

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Con`hy´drine

(Chem.) A vegetable alkaloid found with conine in the poison hemlock (Conium maculatum). It is a white crystalline substance, C8H17NO, easily convertible into conine.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

References in periodicals archive

hemlock in very low concentrations and is isomeric with conhydrine,

incorporation of acetate-1-C (14) into coniine and conhydrine; J Am Chem

Conium maculatum Intoxication: Literature Review and Case Report on Hemlock Poisoning

Conhydrine is one of the classes of alkaloids which were isolated by Wertheim from the poisonous plant, Conium maculatum L [4], in 1856.

Stereoselective synthesis of (+)-[alpha]-Conhydrine from R-(+)-glyceraldehyde

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