Citations:rainwood


 * 2007, Herman van Bekkum and Leendert Maat, “Fine Chemicals from Renewables” in Catalysis for Renewables: From Feedstock to Energy Production, eds. Gabriele Centi and Rutger Anthony van Santen, Wiley-VCH, ISBN 9783527317882, chapter v, § 5.4: ‘Alkaloids’, page 112:
 * Another interesting alkaloid is tubocurarine chloride (14), with a bisbenzylisoquinoline structure. It is the active principle of tubocurare, an arrow poison used by Indians in South America and medicinally used as a muscle relaxant. However, the source, the leaves of the tropical rainwood liane Chondodenron tomentosum, is not easily accessible and the compound exhibits unwanted side-effects.