Download PDF
Planta Med 1990; 56(2): 216-217
DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-960928
Papers

© Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New York

New Canthin-6-one Alkaloids from Quassia amara

P. Barbetti, G. Grandolini, G. Fardella, I. Chiappini, A. Mastalia
  • Istituto di Chimica Farmaceutica e Tecnica Farmaceutica, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Via del Liceo, I-06100 Perugia, Italy
Further Information

Publication History

1989

Publication Date:
05 January 2007 (online)

Also available at
  PDF Download  Permissions and Reprints

Corrected by:

ErrataPlanta Med 1990; 56(04): 420-420
DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-961763

Abstract

From the wood of Quassia amara L. (Simarubaceae) two new canthin-6-one alkaloids have been isolated and their structures determined as 3-methyl-4-methoxy-5-hydroxycanthin-2,6-dione (1) and 4-methoxy-5-hydroxycanthin-6-one 3-,N-oxide (2) by spectroscopic and chemical methods. 3-Methylcanthin-5,6-dione (3) has been also isolated and identified for the first time from this source.

Key words

Quassia amara - Simarubaceae - canthin-6-one - alkaloids