The biosynthesis of the β-carboline alkaloids, harman and eleagnine
- 1 January 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Perkin Transactions 1
- No. 7,p. 1523-1525
- https://doi.org/10.1039/p19820001523
Abstract
1-Methyl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-β-carboline-1-carboxylic acid (3) is shown to be an intact precursor for harman (5) in Passiflora edulis and for eleagnine (6) in Eleagnus angustifolia; it is a natural constituent of both these plants; (3) is at least an 8-fold better precursor for (5) than is N-acetyltryptamine (11).This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: