Cinchonine

Cinchonine (CAS 118-10-5) is a natural cinchona bark alkaloid. Also marketed as D-Cinchonine.

Where is Cinchonine used?

• Pharmaceutical manufacturing: resolves racemic mixtures to isolate enantiomerically pure active ingredients
• Biotechnology: reference standard and chiral selector in chromatographic method development
• Personal care: preservation systems where alkaloid-based antimicrobial activity supports product stability
• Research: biochemical tool compound in synthesis and research workflows
• Asymmetric catalysis: quinuclidine-quinoline scaffold used to develop organocatalyst systems
• Industrial-scale chiral resolution processes utilize this compound.

Good to know: Chiral purity directly affects regulatory approval in API production. Select suppliers offer material compliant with reference standard requirements.

Commercial specifications

• Reagent-grade and high-purity specifications
• Packaging from small research quantities to bulk orders