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Joseph-Bienaimé Caventou

French chemist

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association with Pelletier

In Pierre-Joseph Pelletier
…in collaboration with the chemist Joseph-Bienaimé Caventou, he isolated chlorophyll, the green pigment in plants that is essential to the process of photosynthesis. His interests soon turned to a new class of vegetable bases now called alkaloids, and he isolated emetine. With Caventou he continued his search for alkaloids, and…
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discovery of strychnine

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…discovered by the French chemists Joseph-Bienaimé Caventou and Pierre-Joseph Pelletier in 1818 in Saint-Ignatius’-beans (S. ignatii), a woody vine of the Philippines. The nux vomica tree of India is the chief commercial source. Strychnine has a molecular formula of C₂₁H₂₂N₂O₂. It is practically insoluble in water and is soluble only…
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