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THIRTY-SIX years ago1 I directed attention to the structural relations between hygrine, cuskhygrine, tropine and other similar bases, and drew the conclusion that the units concerned in the biogenesis were ornithine or proline on one hand, and an acetone equivalent on the other. P. I. Mortimer2 now advances a different hypothesis on the sole new ground that hyoscine and nicotine have been found to be congeneric in one instance at least3.
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Mortimer, P. I., Nature, 172, 75 (1953).
Loftus Hills, K., Bottomley, W., and Mortimer, P. I., Nature, 171, 435 (1953).
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ROBINSON, R. Biogenesis of Alkaloids of Solanaceæ. Nature 172, 344–345 (1953). https://doi.org/10.1038/172344b0
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