Tabel cu principalii alcaloizi i datele descoperirilor acestora:

Alcaloidul Morfin Narcotin Stricnin Chinin Brucin Cafein Coniin Nicotin Atropin Narcein Codein Teobromin Papaverin Cocain Apomorfin Pilocarpin Arecolin Teofilin Scopolamin Yohimbin Lobelin Alcaloizii din ergot Platifilin Reserpin Anul descoperirii 1803 1817 1818 1818 1818 1820 1827 1827 1831 1832 1832 1842 1848 1862 1870 1875 1881 1888 1892 1896-1897 1921 1918-1950 1935 1954 Descoperitorii Sguin i Courtois (simultan), Derosne; Izolat n 1804 de Sertrner Robiquet Pelletier, Caventou; formula de Sir Robert Robinson n 1946 Pelletier, Caventou Pelletier, Caventou Runge, Robiquet Gieseke Passelt, Reinmann Mein, Geiger, Hessh Pelletier Robiquet Woskressenski Merck Whler Matthiesen, Wright Gerard, Hardy Jahns Kassel Shmidt Spiegel i Thomas Wieland Jacobs, Stoll Konovalova i Orehov Schlihler i colab.