Elegantine, a new oxindole alkaloid from Vinca elegantissima hort.

✍ Scribed by J. Bhattacharyya; S.C. Pakrashi

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1972
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 213 KB
• Volume: 13
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0040-4039
• DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4039(01)84266-0

✦ Synopsis

Vinca major Linn. var. Vinca elegantissime Bert. (8.0. Apocynaceae) is a -comparatively rare herb growing in the Nilgiri Hills of Southern India and does not appear to have been investigated so far. We now wish t0 repGrt ck isolation and structure elucidation of a new oxindole alkaloid, elegantine ' C23H28S206' m.p* 2C2-204O, from the whole plant which also yielded reserpicine. Lupeol and