INDOLE ALKALOIDS OF ACER-SACCHARINUM (THE SILVER MAPLE), DICTYOLOMA-INCANESCENS, PIPTADENIA-COLUBRINA, AND MIMOSA-HOSTILIS
INDOLE ALKALOIDS OF ACER-SACCHARINUM (THE SILVER MAPLE), DICTYOLOMA-INCANESCENS, PIPTADENIA-COLUBRINA, AND MIMOSA-HOSTILIS
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DOI:
10.1021/jo01091a032
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发表时间:
1959-01-01
影响因子:
3.6
通讯作者:
RIBEIRO, O
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作者:
PACHTER, IJ;ZACHARIAS, DE;RIBEIRO, O
Although numerous members of the maple family, Aceraceae, have been studied chemically in con-siderable detail, none has been known to produce alkaloids. When we learned, through qualitative tests, that alkaloids occur in the leaves of the silver maple tree, Acer saccharinum L. it was of consider-able interest to us to learn their nature. Extraction of 3.75 kg. of dried, ground maple leaves2 with ethanol and concentration of the alkaloid gave a mass of large crystals in 0.05% yield. The ultraviolet spectrum of the material was almost identicalwith those of3-substituted indoles such as gramine and tryptamine. Upon recrystallization from benzene, the alkaloid melted at 131-132 and was found to be identical with a synthetic specimen of thealkaloid gramine (I). As far as we know, gramine has been found to occur naturally only in the grass family and its occurrence in maple leaves was quite unexpected. The Acer-aceae may now be included in the growing number of plant families known to produce indole alkaloids.-i¡-CH2N (CH3) 2 R'-T^-¡|-CH2CH2NR2R3 vv