Psylloborine A, a new dimeric alkaloid from a ladybird beetle
✍ Scribed by Frank C. Schröder; Till Tolasch
- Book ID
- 104208851
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- French
- Weight
- 340 KB
- Volume
- 54
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0040-4020
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✦ Synopsis
A new dimeric alkaloid, psylloborine A (3), was identified from the 22-pointed ladybird beetle Psyllobora vigintiduopunctata (L.). Psylloborine A exhibits an unusual heptacyclic ring system, derived from two azaphenalene units. Structural assignment was based on NMR-spectroscopic methods, using E.COSY experiments for the analysis of the highly complex spin systems.
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