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Applications of Liquid-Chromatography Tandem Mass Spectrometry in Natural Products Research: Tropane Alkaloids as a Case Study
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Leaf Alkaloids of Zanthoxylum rubescens
1Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ife, Ile-Ife, Nigeria.
Planta Medica
|February 1, 1984
Abstract:
An alkaloid, 8-methoxy dictamnine ( 1) and a fagaramide like compound ( 2) were isolated from the leaves of ZANTHOXYLUM RUBESCENS for the first time. These compounds were absent in the root and stem barks from which nitidine chloride (0.013% (w)/ (w))( 3) and 9-methoxylchelerythrine (0.18% (w)/ (w))( 4) (possibly an artefact from chelerythrine) were isolated.
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