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loline

loline

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Noun

loline

(organic chemistry) Festucine, an alkaloid with the formula C₈H₁₄N₂O.
- 1991, Abdel-Fattah M. Rizk, Poisonous plant contamination of edible plants, page 96:
  
  Hydrolysis of lolidine yields loline and norloline:
  
  […]
  
  MS and NMR spectra of loline from L. cunneatum and festucine from Festuca arundinacea showed that both alkaloids are identical.

See also

norloline, lolidine