Additional alkaloids of Pachygone ovata

J Nat Prod. 1984 May-Jun;47(3):459-64. doi: 10.1021/np50033a010.

Abstract

Pachygone ovata (Menispermaceae), indigenous to the sandy seashores of southern India, is a woody climber whose fruits have been used as a rodenticide and fish poison. Chromatography of the extract of the roots resulted in the reisolation of the alkaloids liriodenine, coclaurine, trilobine (1), and magnoflorine and the isolation of stepholidine, coreximine, isoboldine, norjuziphine, and nortrilobine (2). Nortrilobine (2) is a new dibenzo-p-dioxin bisbenzylisoquinoline alkaloid whose structure was established by a consideration of spectral data and conversion to isotrilobine (3).

Publication types

  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Alkaloids / isolation & purification*
  • Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid
  • India
  • Plant Extracts / analysis*
  • Plants, Toxic / analysis

Substances

  • Alkaloids
  • Plant Extracts