meconic acid การใช้
- Meconic acid was first isolated by Friedrich Sert黵ner in 1805.
- Meconic acid gives a red color with ferric chloride.
- Meconic acid forms salts with alkaloids and metals.
- Meconic acid is a dicarboxylic acid.
- Meconic acid is colorless and is only slightly soluble in water but readily soluble in alcohol.
- These salts as well as meconic acid esters are called "'meconates " '.
- Meconic acid constitutes about 5 % of opium and can be used as an analytical marker for the presence of opium.
- Meconic acid has erroneously been described as a mild narcotic, but it has little or no physiological activity, and is not used medicinally.
- "' Others "': Other characteristic substances contained within these species include : meconic acid and chelidonic acid, as well as cyanogenic glycoside compounds derived from tyrosine : dhurrin and triglochinin; in the Fumarioideae while the Chelidonieae contain the free amino acid ?-acetylornithine.