Progress toward the Development of a "Catch/Release" Strategy for Isolating Salvinorin A, From Plant Materails Including Microwave Promotion

Authors

Douglas Armstrong, Olivet Nazarene UniversityFollow
Logan Smith

Document Type

Presentation

Publication Date

10-2017

Scholarship Domain(s)

Scholarship of Discovery

Abstract

We are investigating using the Diels-Alder and retro-Diels-Alder reactions as a potential “catch/release” strategy for isolating Salvinorin A from plant samples (Salvia divinorum), hopefully to improve the current method, which is very long and laborious. Salvinorin A has analgesic activity by activating the kappa opioid receptor, not the mu receptor, and thus it has potential for being developed into a non-addicting analgesic.

Comments

Poster presented at MACTLAC 2017: The 65th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Association of Chemistry Teachers in Liberal Arts Colleges, Oct. 13-14.

Recommended Citation

Armstrong, Douglas and Smith, Logan, "Progress toward the Development of a "Catch/Release" Strategy for Isolating Salvinorin A, From Plant Materails Including Microwave Promotion" (2017). Faculty Scholarship – Chemistry. 8.
https://digitalcommons.olivet.edu/chem_facp/8

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