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pseudopelletierine
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Pseudopelletierine is the main alkaloid derived from the root-bark of the pomegranate tree (Punica granatum), along with at least three other alkaloids: pelletierine, isopelletierine, and methylpelletierine (C9H17ON), which yield 1.8, 0.52, 0.01, and 0.20 grams per kilogram of raw bark.
Chemical data
- Formula
- C9H15NO
- Molecular weight
- 153.22 g/mol
- IUPAC name
- 9-methyl-9-azabicyclo[3.3.1]nonan-3-one
- SMILES
- CN1C2CCCC1CC(=O)C2
- InChIKey
- RHWSKVCZXBAWLZ-UHFFFAOYSA-N
- XLogP
- 0.7
- Polar surface area
- 20.3 Ų
- H-bond donors
- 0
- H-bond acceptors
- 2
- Formal charge
- 0
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Drug data · ChEMBL
- Molecule type
- Small molecule
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- alkaloid
- Mass
- 153.115364
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- chemical formula
- C₉H₁₅NO
- canonical SMILES
- CN1C2CCCC1CC(=O)C2
- Commons category
- Pseudopelletierine
- found in taxon
- pomegranate
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Pseudopelletierine is the main alkaloid derived from the root-bark of the pomegranate tree (Punica granatum), along with at least three other alkaloids: pelletierine, isopelletierine, and methylpelletierine (C9H17ON), which yield 1.8, 0.52, 0.01, and 0.20 grams per kilogram of raw bark.
It is a homolog of tropinone, and can be synthesized in a manner analogous to the classical Robinson tropinone synthesis, using glutaraldehyde (rather than succinaldehyde), acetonedicarboxylic acid, and methylammonium chloride. It was the starting material for Willstätter's 10-step synthesis of cyclooctatetraene, which was achieved after oxidation and several Hoffman elimination steps.
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