Document Type

Article (Restricted)

Publication Date

1-1-2010

Abstract

A total of 25 alkaloids were isolated from the leaf and stem-bark extracts of Alstonia spatulata, of which five are new alkaloids of the strychnan type (alstolucines A-E, 1-5)and the other, a new alkaloid of the secoangustilobine A type(alstolobine A, 6). The structures of these alkaloids were established using NMR and MS analysis and, in the case of alstolucine B (2), also confirmed by X-ray diffraction analysis. A reinvestigation of the stereochemical assignment of scholaricine (13) by NMR and X-ray analyses indicated that the configuration at C-20 required revision. Alkaloids 1, 2, 6, 7, 9, 10, and 13 reversed multidrug resistance in vincristine-resistant KB cells.

Keywords

Alkaloids, NMR, Alstonia spatulata, Alstolucine.

Publication Title

Journal of Natural Products

ISSN

0163-3864

Divisions

CHEMISTRY

Volume

73

Publisher

American Chemical Society and American Society of Pharmacognosy

Additional Information

Department of Chemistry, University of Malaya --- doi: 10.1021/np100552b

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