Antimicrobially Active Alkaloids from Tabernaemontana chippii
- 1 May 1985
- journal article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Journal of Natural Products
- Vol. 48 (3) , 400-423
- https://doi.org/10.1021/np50039a008
Abstract
From Tabernaemontana chippii root bark, forty-five alkaloids were isolated; thirty-four were fully characterized by means of their spectral data and/or co-tlc; eight alkaloids were new, four of them being 3-hydroxy derivatives of known dimeric voacamine type alkaloids. Most of the twenty-six known alkaloids belonged to the corynanthean, ibogan, or bisindole classes. The structures of eleven other alkaloids--all minor--were only partially elucidated, most of them being new alkaloids. All the dimeric alkaloids were shown to possess strong antimicrobial activity against gram-positive bacteria and moderate to weak activity against gram-negative bacteria.Keywords
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