aporphinoid

English

Etymology

From aporphine +‎ -oid.

Adjective

aporphinoid (not comparable)

1. Related to aporphine.
   • 1950, Richard Helmuth Fred Manske, Henry Lavergne Holmes, The Alkaloids: Chemistry and Physiology, page 319:

     Following the erroneous assignment of an aporphinoid structure to argemonine (15), various structures were considered based on degradative and spectral evidence (16,17).

   • 1989, The Alkaloids: Chemistry and Pharmacology, page 64:

     The first hypothesis seems to be preferable if the aporphinoid or shikimate–glutamate routes are considered.

   • 1998, K. W. Bentley, Isoquinoline Alkaloids, page 131:

     The aporphinoid alkaloids are widely distributed in plants and although most commonly found in the Papaveraceae they have also been isolated from the Araceae, Lauraceae and Monimiaceae.

Noun

aporphinoid (plural aporphinoids)

1. An aporphinoid alkaloid; any of a group of related alkaloids that have aporphine as a core chemical substructure.
   • 1999, Chemistry and Biology, page 74:
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     In recent years, the pharmacological activity of aporphinoids has been the subject of a great deal of research in the field of natural products.

   • 2012, T.I. Atta-ur-Rahman, Philip W. Le Quesne, Natural Products Chemistry III, page 238:

     At this point in our research we decided to investigate whether the need to devise ad hoc solutions for each separate aporphinoid might be done away with by developing a new method of aporphinoid synthesis that combined generality, convergence, simplicity and efficiency.

   • 2015, Reinhard Jetter, The Formation, Structure and Activity of Phytochemicals, page 51:

     Both agonistic and antagonistic activities have been described, depending on the particular aporphinoid.