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Aspidophytine
Sign in to saveAspidophytine is an indole alkaloid that has attracted significant attention from synthetic chemists. An extract of the cockroach plant, aspidophytine is an insecticidal substance particularly effective against cockroaches. It is one of the two components of the dimer haplophytine.
Chemical data
- Formula
- C22H26N2O4
- Molecular weight
- 382.5 g/mol
- IUPAC name
- (1S,4R,12R,16S)-7,8-dimethoxy-5-methyl-17-oxa-5,15-diazahexacyclo[13.4.3.01,16.04,12.06,11.012,16]docosa-2,6(11),7,9-tetraen-18-one
- SMILES
- CN1[C@@H]2C=C[C@@]34CCCN5[C@]3([C@]2(CC5)C6=C1C(=C(C=C6)OC)OC)OC(=O)C4
- InChIKey
- QESOHAISGSLAAJ-DHWLSRIRSA-N
- XLogP
- 2.6
- Polar surface area
- 51.2 Ų
- H-bond donors
- 0
- H-bond acceptors
- 6
- Formal charge
- 0
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Wikidata facts
- Mass
- 382.189257
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- chemical formula
- C₂₂H₂₆N₂O₄
- isomeric SMILES
- CN1[C@@H]2C=C[C@@]34CCCN5[C@]3([C@]2(CC5)C6=C1C(=C(C=C6)OC)OC)OC(=O)C4
- canonical SMILES
- CN1C2C=CC34CCCN5C3(C2(CC5)C6=C1C(=C(C=C6)OC)OC)OC(=O)C4
- found in taxon
- Haplophyton cimicidum
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Aspidophytine is an indole alkaloid that has attracted significant attention from synthetic chemists. An extract of the cockroach plant, aspidophytine is an insecticidal substance particularly effective against cockroaches. It is one of the two components of the dimer haplophytine.
In his suicide note, Harvard doctoral student Jason Altom mentioned his stress in attempting to devise a synthetic pathway for the aspidophytine sub-unit of haplophytine as a contributing factor to his psychological breakdown.
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