naa a22 4500 510784917 CHVBK 20180411083259.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s12045-013-0033-3 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s12045-013-0033-3 Fascinating organic molecules from nature [Elektronische Daten] 4. Hunting with poisoned arrows: Story of curare [N. Krishnaswamy, C. Sundaresan] European explorers of the New World brought back to Europe exotic specimens of plant and animal origin. One of these was curare, the arrow poison used by the natives of the Orinoco and the Amazon river basins mainly to capture birds and animals for food. Three types of curare were known, namely tubocurare, calabash curare and pot curare. The main plant component of tubocurare was identified as the Menispermaceae plantChondrodendrontomentosum, whereas in calabash curare the chief ingredient was the bark of Strychnos toxifera. From tubocurare, the quaternary base, d-tubocurarine was isolated. It is a bis-benzylisoquinoline alkaloid. Calabash curare is a complex mixture of several closely related indole alkaloids. Indian Academy of Sciences, 2013 Wieland-Gumlich aldehyde nationallicence curare nationallicence d-tubocurarine nationallicence d-beeberine nationallicence toxiferine-1 nationallicence deoxytoxiferine nationallicence hemitoxiferine nationallicence Krishnaswamy N. No.12, 9th Main Road Banashankari 2nd Stage, 560 070, Bangalore, India aut Sundaresan C. Department of Chemistry, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning Brindavan Campus, 560 067, Bangalore, India aut Resonance Springer-Verlag 18/3(2013-03-01), 218-225 0971-8044 18:3<218 2013 18 12045 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12045-013-0033-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12045-013-0033-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Krishnaswamy N. No.12, 9th Main Road Banashankari 2nd Stage, 560 070, Bangalore, India aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Sundaresan C. Department of Chemistry, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning Brindavan Campus, 560 067, Bangalore, India aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Resonance Springer-Verlag 18/3(2013-03-01), 218-225 0971-8044 18:3<218 2013 18 12045 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer