Quinine Sulfate is the Sulfate salt of Quinine, a naturally occurring alkaloid originally isolated from the bark of the cinchona tree in 1820. Bark extracts have been used for malaria since 1632 (Sullivan, 2011) and Quinine was the very first antimalarial discovered over 400 years ago. It is a stereoisomer of quinidine which contains an aromatic quinoline and a bicyclic quinuclidine. The compound can also be used to study the metabolism of hemozoin in malarial parasites. Quinine can be used in food science testing as a bitterness reference standard. A potassium channel blocker, Quinine can be incorporated into testing studies investigating the toxicity of heme complexes.
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