Feeding experiments with distant single or doubly labelled precursors show that the methylene dioxy group of berberine is opened in the formation of jatrorrhizine.
The incorporation of berberine into jatrorrhizine
โ Scribed by C.W.W. Beecher; W.J. Kelleher
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1983
- Tongue
- French
- Weight
- 229 KB
- Volume
- 24
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0040-4039
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โฆ Synopsis
The incorporation of berberine into jatrorrhizine is demonstrated.
The protoberberine alkaloids, one of the larger classes of isoquinoline alkaloids, exhibit much variability in their methylation/methylenation patterns. Considering only the more common 2,3,9,10 substituted protoberberines, all of the monohydroxy and most of the dihydroxy possibilities are known natural products. Biosynthetically, this presents a problem if a common biosynthetic pathway routed through the dimethoxy compound, scoulerine, is assumed. We wish to report here a possible reconciliation to a common pathway.
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