Chlorinated alkaloids in Menispermum dauricum DC: root culture.

Full Abstract

Feeding experiments using (36)Cl showed that Menispermum dauricum root culture produces four alkaloids containing chlorine. They included the novel alkaloids dauricumine and dauricumidine as well as the known alkaloids acutumine and acutumidine. The structures of novel alkaloids were established by spectroscopic, crystallographic, and chemical methods. These four alkaloids were labeled with (36)Cl, isolated, and fed independently to root cultures. Mutual conversion between acutumine and acutumidine, and between dauricumine and dauricumidine by N-methylation and N-demethylation, was demonstrated. Moreover, dauricumine was converted to acutumine and acutumidine. Epimerization of acutumidine to dauricumidine or vice versa was not observed. These results suggest that dauricumine is the first chlorinated alkaloid formed in cultured M. dauricum roots. Skewed distribution of radioactivity derived from labeled dauricumine is proof that epimerization at C-1 proceeds at a lower rate than N-demethylation.

Author information

Author/s: Sugimoto, Y (Y); Babiker, H A (HA); Saisho, T (T); Furumoto, T (T); Inanaga, S (S); Kato, M (M);

Affiliation: Arid Land Research Center, Tottori University, 1390 Hamasaka, Tottori 680-0001, Japan. sugimoto(-atsign-)center.tottori-u.ac.jp

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Journal: The Journal of organic chemistry (J Org Chem), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2001-May; vol 66 (issue 10) : pp 3299-302

Dates: Created 2001/05/11; Completed 2002/01/02; Revised 2006/11/15;

PMID: 11348110, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 2/18/2009, IMS Date: )

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