Crinine in an alkaloid found in a variety of plants including many species in the family

Amaryllidaceae The Amaryllidaceae are a family of herbaceous, mainly perennial and bulbous (rarely rhizomatous) flowering plants in the monocot order Asparagales. The family takes its name from the genus ''Amaryllis'' and is commonly known as the amaryllis fa ...

. It was first isolated and characterized in the 1950s as a constituent of several plants in the genus '' Crinum'', from which it derives its name. Several laboratory syntheses of crinine have been reported.

Related compounds

There are many alkaloids with a chemical structure similar to crinine and they are generally referred to as crinine-type alkaloids. As of 2020, there were at least 85 known crinine-type alkaloids.

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