Aspidophytine is an indole alkaloid that has attracted significant attention from synthetic chemists.

[1][2][3][4] An extract of the cockroach plant, aspidophytine is an insecticidal substance particularly effective against cockroaches.

It is one of the two components of the dimer haplophytine.

[5] In his suicide note, Harvard doctoral student Jason Altom mentioned his stress in attempting to devise a synthetic pathway for the aspidophytine sub-unit of haplophytine as a contributing factor to his psychological breakdown.

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