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Revised structures of pratorinine and pratorimine

Research Authors
JA Maddry, BS Joshi, AA Ali, MG Newton, SW Pelletier
Research Date
Research Department
Research Journal
Tetrahedron Letters
Research Publisher
Elsevier
Research Vol
26
Research Website
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0040-4039(00)98718-5
Research Year
1985
Research_Pages
4301-4302
Research Abstract

Two phenanthridone alkaloids isolated from the bulbs of Crinum bulbispermum L. have been shown to be identical with pratorinine and pratorimine. The structure proposed earlier for pratorinine has been revised to 3 on the basis of an X-ray structure analysis and the structure of pratorimine has been shown to be 2