chelirubine

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chelirubine (uncountable)

  1. (organic chemistry) a positive organic ion, with chemical formula C₂₁H₁₆NO₅⁺, having six interlinked carbon rings (including three aromatic benzene rings); commonly formed in combination with a negative halide ion, such as chelirubine chloride.
    • 1983, Helvetica Chimica Acta, volume 66, number 1, page 478:
      The biosynthetic investigation of chelirubine (3) and macarpine (4) has not been reported. A proposal for the biogenetic conversion of sanguinarine (1) into chelirubine (3) had been made.
    • 1984, Syntheses of the Benzo[c]phenanthridine Alkaloids:
      The first breakthrough in the problems of the structures came from a proposal of the structure of chelirubine (18) by Ishii and co-workers who upon thorough inspection of various spectral data revised the previously proposed structures, []