Chemical Properties
white to slightly yellow crystalline powder
Uses
Tropine is an oxidative product of Tropane, used to synthesize alkaloid derivatives.
Uses
Tropine as an oxidative product of Tropane, used to synthesize alkaloid derivatives. Benzatropine and etybenzatropine are derivatives of tropine. It is also a building block of atropine, an anticholinergic drug prototypical of the muscarinic antagonist class.
Definition
ChEBI: A derivative of tropane having a hydroxy group at the 3-position.
Purification Methods
Distil 3-tropanol in steam and crystallise it from Et2O or toluene/pet ether. It sublimes at 60o/0.1mm. Hygroscopic. The hydrochloride has m 280o (from EtOH/Et2O). [Beilstein 21 H 16, 21 I 197, 21 II 17, 21 III/IV 168, 21/1 V 219.]
