white to slightly yellow crystalline powder
Tropine is an oxidative product of Tropane, used to synthesize alkaloid derivatives.
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.
ChEBI: A derivative of tropane having a hydroxy group at the 3-position.
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.]
