Alkaloids of Japanese Veratrum Genus Plants. III

YAKUGAKU ZASSHI
1959.0

Abstract

Systematic examinations were made on the alkaloids of Veratrum grandiflorum (MAXIM.) LOESENER FIL growing in Hokkaido. As the free bases, jervine (yield, 0.2%), veratramine, and rubijervine were isolated and identified. The so-called amorphous base was found to contain a few kinds of unknown ester-alkaloids, as evidenced by paper chromatography, and these were separated by chromatopile. The main alkaloid was obtained in 0.01% yield as a substance (Ea) of C₃₂H₄₇O₈N·H₂O, m.p. 235°(decomp.), [α]¹⁵ -10.9°(c=1.65, CHCl₃); UV λ_max^EtOH 217 mμ (log ε 3.00); IR λ_max^EtOH 5.82, 6.02 μ. Examination of the hydrolyzate of (Ea) showed it to be the zygadenine δ-lactone monoester of angelic acid.

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