Coca alkaloid explained

Coca alkaloids are the alkaloids found in the coca plant, Erythroxylum coca.^[1] They are predominantly of either the pyrrolidine or the tropane types.

Tropane-type alkaloids

• Benzoylecgonine
• Cocaine
• Ecgonidine
• Ecgonine
• Hydroxytropacocaine
• Methylecgonine cinnamate
• Tropacocaine
• Truxilline

Pyrrolidine-type alkaloids

• Cuscohygrine
• Dihydrocuscohygrine
• Hygrine
• Nicotine

See also

• Cocaine metabolites (Human)
• Coca wine, an alcoholic beverage combining wine with extracted coca alkaloids
• Methylecgonidine
• Troparil

Notes and References

1. Variation of Alkaloid Content in Erythroxylum coca Leaves from Leaf Bud to Leaf Drop. Emanuel L. Johnson and Stephen D. Emche, Ann. Bot., 1994, volume 73, issue 6, pages 645-650,