anisodine anisodine anisodine, also known as daturamine and α-hydroxyscopolamine, is an antispasmodic and anticholinergic drug used in the treatment of acute circulatory shock in china. it is a tropane alkaloid and is found naturally in plants of the family solanaceae like scopolia tanguticus anisodine acts as a muscarinic acetylcholine receptor antagonist and α1-adrenergic receptor antagonist. anisodineclinical dataatc codenoneidentifiers iupac name 9-methyl-3-oxa-9-azatricyclonon-7-yl α-hydroxy-α-(hydroxymethyl)benzeneacetate cas number52646-92-1 npubchem cid4105431chemspider9791461 yuniiz75256j75jcomptox dashboard (epa)dtxsid20967080 chemical and physical dataformulac17h21no5molar mass319.357 g·mol−13d model (jsmol)interactive image smiles o=c(oc1cc2n(c(c1)c3oc23)c)c(o)(c4ccccc4)co inchi inchi=1s/c17h21no5/c1-18-12-7-11(8-13(18)15-14(12)23-15)22-16(20)17(21,9-19)10-5-3-2-4-6-10/h2-6,11-15,19,21h,7-9h2,1h3/t11?,12-,13+,14-,15+,17-/m1/s1 ykey:jejrekxhlfevhn-qdxggtilsa-n y ny (what is this?) (verify) synthesis (-)-anisodine can be efficiently prepared using 6-beta-acetyltropine as the starting material via a key step of the sharpless asymmetric dihydroxylation (ad).