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Catherine Lavaud

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The Iboga Alkaloids.

Progress in the chemistry of organic natural products 2017 Catherine Lavaud, Georges Massiot 42 citations

Iboga alkaloids are a particular class of indolomonoterpenes most often characterized by an isoquinuclidine nucleus. Their first occurrence was detected in the roots of Tabernanthe iboga, a sacred plant to the people of Gabon, which made it cult object. Ibogaine is the main representative of this class of alkaloids and its psychoactive properties are well documented. It has been proposed as a...