Tropic acid
Tropic acid is a chemical with IUPAC name 3-hydroxy-2-phenylpropanoic acid and condensed structural formula HOCH2CHPhCOOH. It is a laboratory reagent used in the chemical synthesis of atropine and hyoscyamine. Tropic acid is a chiral substance, existing as either a racemic mixture or as a single enantiomer.
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3-Hydroxy-2-phenylpropanoic acid | |
| Other names
2-Phenylhydracrylic acid; Tropate | |
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| ECHA InfoCard | 100.008.201 |
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| MeSH | C011377 |
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| C9H10O3 | |
| Molar mass | 166.176 g·mol−1 |
Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa).
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Drugs
- Tropic acid is reacted with tropine (product of tropinone) to produce atropine (cf. Homatropine).
- Scopine is reacted with tropic acid in a Fischer esterification to produce scopolamine.
- tropicamide
- Anisodamine.
- Quats: Hyoscine butylbromide, Butropium bromide (Coliopan®), Fentonium, Methylatropine, methscopolamine, Cimetropium.
- Eucatropine
- Amprotropine
- Tropesin [65189-78-8] [65828-79-7].
- Pimetremide
- Ipragratine
- Solandrine (Norhyoscyamine)
References
- Gadzikowska, M; Grynkiewicz, G (2002). "Tropane alkaloids in pharmaceutical and phytochemical analysis". Acta Poloniae Pharmaceutica. 59 (2): 149–60. PMID 12365608.
- Sletzinger, Paulsen, U.S. patent 2,390,278 (1945 to Merck & Co.).
- Blicke, U.S. patent 2,716,650 (1955 to University of Michigan).
- DE 923426, Blicke, Frederick Franklin, "Verfahren zur Herstellung von α-substituierten β-Oxypropionsäuren [Process for the preparation of α-substituted β-oxypropionic acids]", published 1955-02-14, assigned to Sterling Drug Inc.
- Blicke, F. F., Raffelson, H., Barna, B. (January 1952). "The Preparation of Tropic Acid". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 74 (1): 253–253. doi:10.1021/ja01121a504.
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