Compulsory / Teaching hours per week: 5 / Assessment: final exam at the end of each term or September/ Credits: 6
Sofia Mitakou, professor
Eleni Skaltsa, professor
Αlexios Leandros Skaltsounis
• Alkaloids: Introduction, physicochemical properties, detection, extractions, pharmacological activities, biosynthesis.
• Ornithine and lysine derivatives: tropane alkaloids of Solanaceae and Erythroxylaceae, pyrrolizidine alkaloids, nicotinic acid derivatives, indolizidine, quinolizidine, piperidine alkaloids, anthranilic acid derivatives, terpene and steroide alkaloids, histidine derivatives, purine alkaloids.
• Phenylalanine and tyrosine alkaloids: Phenylethylamines, simple isoquinolines, curare, morphinane alkaloids, phenethylisoquinolines, monoterpene isoquinolines, Amaryllidaceae alkaloids.
• Tryptophan alkaloids: tryptamines, β-carbolines, ergoline derivatives, monoterpene indole alkaloids, alkaloids of Cinchona and Vinca, Ellipticin, Camptothecin.
• Terpenes and steroids: essential oils, pyrethroids, iridoids, sesquiterpene lactones, diterpenes, triterpenes, modified triterpenes: limonoids, quassinoids, brassinoids, saponins, sterols, steroids, N containing glycosides, glycerosides, sterols, cardiotonic glycosides, Carotenoids
• Oleoresins, Balsams.