Hordenine is suitable to study the effect of reed canary grass alkoloids on in vito digestibility. It is also suitable for use as a standard to identify endogenous hordenine in ungerminated and germinated barley by HPLCdiode array detection analysis.Hordenine may be used as an analytical reference material and in research on the activities of phenethylamine type alkaloids.

For R&D use onlynot for drug household or other uses.

Hordenine (NN-dimethyltyramine) is an alkaloid of the phenethylamine class that occurs naturally in a variety of plants taking its name from one of the most common barley (Hordeum species). Chemically hordenine is the N-methyl derivative of N-methyltyramine and the NN-dimethyl derivative of the well-known biogenic amine tyramine from which it is biosynthetically derived and with which it shares some pharmacological properties (see below). Currently hordenine is widely sold as an ingredient of nutritional supplements with the claims that it is a stimulant of the central nervous system and has the ability to promote weight loss by enhancing metabolism.