1. ChemInform Abstract: Synthetic Studies on the Gelsemium Alkaloids
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Hiromitsu Takayama and Shin-ichiro Sakai
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Indole test ,biology ,Chemistry ,Humantenine ,Stereochemistry ,Alkaloid ,General Medicine ,biology.organism_classification ,Gelsemine ,Gelsemium ,Ajmaline ,medicine ,Medicinal plants ,medicine.drug - Abstract
From the medicinal plants Gelsemium, various skeletal type of indole alkaloids were isolated. Along the biogenetic speculation of these alkaloids, some of the structurally complex compounds, involving sarpagine-, humantenine-, koumine-, and gelsedine-type, were prepared from ajmaline and the Gardneria alkaloids. In the second half of this article, recent synthetic studies on the sarpagine type alkaloids and on a principal Gelsemium alkaloid, gelsemine, are reviewed.
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- 2010
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