Definitions for cinchonine

cinchonine cin·cho·nine

Spelling: [sing-kuh-neen, -nin, sin-]
IPA: /ˈsɪŋ kəˌnin, -nɪn, ˈsɪn-/

Cinchonine is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 129 anagrams from letters in cinchonine (ccehiinnno).

Definitions for cinchonine

noun

  1. a colorless, crystalline, slightly water-soluble alkaloid, C 19 H 22 N 2 O, a stereoisomer of cinchonidine, obtained from the bark of various species of cinchona and used chiefly as a quinine substitute.

Origin of cinchonine

First recorded in 1815-25; cinchon(a) + -ine2

Examples for cinchonine

Red bark contains not only quinine and cinchonine, but also cinchonidine.

The presence of cinchonine may also be positively determined by reference to the behaviour of that alkaloid.

Cinchonidine, when heated with potassium hydrate, yields quinoline also, and with nitric acid the same products as cinchonine.

Dr de Vrij states that the substance known under this name is a mixture of hydrochlorate of cinchonidine and of cinchonine.

If this be quinidine, it will be dissolved on the addition of proportionately more ether, while cinchonine will remain unaffected.

When cinchonine is distilled with solid potassium hydrate, it yields pyrrol and bases of both the pyridine and quinoline series.

The operation is then repeated, the ether being replaced by chloroform in which both quinine and cinchonine are soluble.

cinchonine may be prepared from its sulphate or disulphate in the same way as quinine.

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