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TUTIN (C15H18O6) was first isolated by Easterfield and Aston1 and identified as the convulsive poison present in the leaves and seeds of the New Zealand species of Coriaria, a shrub known by the Maori as ‘toi toi’. The molecular structure of tutin is now inferred from an X-ray crystal structure analysis of α-bromo-iso-tutin.
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CRAVEN, B. Molecular Structure of Tutin. Nature 197, 1193–1194 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/1971193c0
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