Lythraceae alkaloids. Structure and stereochemistry of the biphenyl ether alkaloids of decodon verticillatus

✍ Scribed by James P. Ferris; R.C. Briner; C.B. Boyce; M.J. Wolf

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1966
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 166 KB
• Volume: 7
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0040-4039
• DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4039(01)89291-1

✦ Synopsis

In our previous paper we reported the structures of the major alkaloids that have been isolated from the Lythraceae plant family. (2) We then turned our attention to two minor alkaloids from Decodon verticillatus, decaline and vertaline. (3) These alkaloids were of in-ter&t because further investigation of the basic extracts of Decodon revealed the presence of appreciable amounts of two new alkaloids, desmethyldecaline and desmethylvertaline, which on methylation were converted to decaline and vertaline. Structurally decaline and vertaline were of interest because each contained a chemically inert oxygen link that was assumed to be an ether, as no direct evidence for its presence