Cytisine is an alkaloid with biological activity that is used as medication for smoking
cessation treatment. It is a quinolizidine derivative, one ring being 2-pyridinone, and there is …

Tobacco use is a leading cause of preventable mortality worldwide. New cost-effective
smoking cessation treatments are needed especially in some low-to-middle income …

Cytisine (CYT) is a quinolizidine alkaloid used for nicotine addiction treatment. Recent
clinical trial data regarding cytisine confirm its high effectiveness and safety as a smoking …

A simple and sensitive spectrophotometric method for the assay of codeine, emetine and
pilocarpine is described, based on the interaction of these drugs (as n-electron donors) with …

Cytisine is a very potent ligand for many neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors
(nAChRs), 3–6 and it has been used as a radioligand in the study of these receptors. 7, 8 …

Background: Identification and quantitative determination of cytisine, especially in biological
samples and pharmaceutical formulations, is still a difficult analytical task. Cytisine is an …

Methylcaffeinium iodide, a bio-based salt obtained by reaction of caffeine with methyl iodide,
is an imidazolium salt. The electrochemical behaviour of 9-methylcaffeinium iodide was …

The Archetti colour test is based on the reduction of ferricyanide ions to ferrocyanide, giving
Prussian blue. However, the oxidation sequence of reactions that take in the organic …

The alkaloid cytisine (1) is used in medicine as a respiratory analeptic [1] known as cytiton
and as an anti-smoking drug. Because cytisine contains a secondary amine group, it is …

Cytisine and its derivatives are promising alkaloids in the development of new drugs for the
treatment of disorders of the central nervous system (CNS). Electron ionization (EI) mass …