The presecamines, a new group of dimeric indole alkaloids from Rhazya species, and their thermally derived monomers, secodine and 15,20-dihydrosecodine
- 1 January 1970
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society D: Chemical Communications
- No. 4,p. 191-192
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c29700000191
Abstract
The new alkaloids, the presecamines (I) or (II), rearrange by acid catalysis to the corresponding secamines, and are Diels–Alder type dimers of secodines (III) containing an α-acrylic ester function; these thermally derived monomers dimerise back to the corresponding presecamine.Keywords
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