Name Structure Biological Significance

Adrenergic agent-used
Ephedrine for asthma and hay fever

Colchicine Relieves gout

Erythromyci
n Antibiotic

Used in the treatment of

ovarian cancer, breast
Taxol cancer and non-small cell
(Paclitaxel) lung cancer
No
. Heterocycle Example

Hygrine, Stachydrine
Pyrrole and Pyrrolidine

1.

Senecionine, Symphitine, Echimidine,

Seneciphylline

Pyrrolizidine

2.

Lobeline, Nicotine, Piperine, Conine,

Trigonelline
Pyridine and Piperidine

3.

Cocaine, Atropine, Hyoscyamine, Hyoscine

Tropane (piperidine/N-
methyl-pyrrolidine)

4.

5. Quinoline Quinine, Quinidine, Cinchonine, Cinchonidine

 Morphine, Emetine, Papaverine, Narcotine,
Tubocurarine, Codeine

Isoquinoline

6.

Aporphine (reduced Boldine

isoquinoline/naphthalene)

7.

Lupanine, Cytisine, Laburnine, Sparteine

Quinolizidine

8.

9. Indole or Benzopyrole Ergometrine, Vinblastine, Vincristine,

Strychnine, Brucine, Ergotamine, Yohimbine,
Reserpine, Serpentine, Physostigmine
 Castanospermine, Swainsonine

Indolizidine

10.

Pilocarpine, Pilosine

Imidazole or glyoxaline

11.

Caffeine, Theobromine

Purine
(pyrimidine/imidazole)

12.

Conessine, Solanidine

Steroidal (some combined

13. as glycosides)*

14. Terpenoid* Aconitine, lycaconitine, Aconine