Meanings
- uncountablechemistrya positive organic ion, with chemical formula C₂₁H₁₆NO₅⁺, having six interlinked carbon rings (including three aromatic benzene rings); commonly formed in combination with a negative halide ion, such as chelirubine chloride.
The biosynthetic investigation of chelirubine (3) and macarpine (4) has not been reported. A proposal for the biogenetic conversion of sanguinarine (1) into chelirubine (3) had been made.
1983, Helvetica Chimica Acta, volume 66, number 1, page 4781 more example
The first breakthrough in the problems of the structures came from a proposal of the structure of chelirubine (18) by Ishii and co-workers who upon thorough inspection of various spectral data revised the previously proposed structures, […]
1984, Syntheses of the Benzo[c]phenanthridine Alkaloids
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