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Quaternary bases (23 spots, 2D-PC), incl. C-alkaloid D, calebassine, curarine, fluorocurine, mavacurine, fluorocurinine Only a small amount of quaternary bases present 0.017% diaboline, 0.009% Wieland-Gumlich aldehyde Alkaloid present... 

Aldehyde 198 served as a key intermediate in a synthesis of the alkaloid ajmaline. The. Mannich aminomethylation transform triggers disconnection of two bonds in 198 to form dialdehyde 199, which by connective transform application can be converted to cyclopentene 200.58,59 The reduction in functional group reactivity and in structural complexity are both apparent by comparison of 198 and 200. 

Constitution. Pelletierine behaves as a secondary amine and the oxygen atom of the alkaloid is present in the form of an aldehyde group, since the base yields an oxime, convertible by the action of phosphorus pentachloride into a nitrile, b.p. 104-6°/13 mm., which is hydrolysed by caustic potash in alcohol to an acid, the ethyl ester of which is Loffler and Kaim s ethyl -2-piperidylpropionate. Pelletierine is not directly oxidisable to this acid. It also yields a liquid hydrazone, b.p. 130°/20 ram., which with sodium in alcohol at 136-70° reduces to dZ-eoniine. These reactions are explained by the following formulas, in which pelletierine is represented as -2-piperidylpropionaldehyde. 

Like other alkaloids of this group, quinine forms molecular compounds with a variety of organic substances. With benzene and toluene it produces compounds of the formulae B. CgHg and B. C,Hg respectively, with phenol it gives the crystalline product B. CgHjOH, and similar combinations with polyhydric phenols, ethers, aldehydes and ketones are known. One of the most characteristic of these substances is cupreine-quinine, a combination of the two alkaloids, obtainable from cuprea bark, and at first regarded as a new alkaloid, and named homoquinine. ... 

In Robinson s now well-known suggestions, regarding the processes by which alkaloids may be produced in plants, two main reactions are used j the aldol condensation and the similar condensation of carbinol-amines, resulting from the combination of an aldehyde or ketone with ammonia or an amine, and containing the group. C(OH). N., with substances in which the group, CH. CO. is present. By these reactions it is possible to form the alkaloid skeleton, and the further necessary changes postulated include oxidations or reductions and elimination of water for the formation of an aromatic nucleus or of an ethylene derivative. 

The alkaloids cotamine (259), hydrastinine (261), and berberinal (260), each possessing a grouping formed by interaction of an aldehyde with a secondary amino group in their molecule, are unusual. The Grignard reaction of free base 166 does not occur as readily as that of the corresponding salt 167. Both reactions lead to the alkylated product 168. For example, only 50% of hydrastinine reacts and 50% is regenerated, whereas hydrastinine hydrochloride reacts almost quantitatively (261). The salt undoubtedly contains a C=N double bond. In the case of the free base, the presence of a C=N double bond was not proven, and the reaction probably occurs by direct cleavage of the C—OH bond. 

Anet et al. ( 04) obtained in 1947 the alkaloids hygrine (191) and kusk-hygrine (192) in a very good yield by treatment of y-methylaminobutyralde-hyde with acetoacetic or acetonedicarboxylic acids at pH 7. The same reaction was later accomplished by Galinovsky et al. (305-307), who prepared the starting aldehyde by partial reduction of 1-methyl-2-pyrroli-done with lithium aluminum hydride. He used acetonedicarboxylic acid for the synthesis of both alkaloids and showed that a mixture of both alkaloids is formed, the composition of which depends on the ratio of components. 

Positively activated olefins have also been condensed with dienamines derived from aldehydes 321,330,347,348) and ketones. Of special interest is the formation of bridged systems from homoannular dienes (229-231) which has been applied to the isoquinuclidine system of the iboga alkaloids (137-140,349). 

Workers at Lilly prepared the oxazole-containing partial ergot alkaloid, 27, a 5-HTl A agonist, through van Leusen reaction of aldehyde 26. ... 

Stevens reported an interesting variation in which the amine and the aldehydes were linked by a tether. Combining bisacetalamine 79 with 76 under acidic conditions generated the single diastereomer 80. This tricyclic species was then converted into the ladybug defense alkaloid precoccinelline 81. 

This reaction is also a key method for the formation of tetrahydro-P-carbolines 5 from indole bases 4 and aldehydes, ketones, or 1,2-di carbonyl compounds 2. These reactions are similarly acid-catalyzed or thermally-induced and have been utilized in the synthesis of numerous indole alkaloids. 

Nitroalkenes are shown to be effective Michael acceptor B units In three sequential re fA + B + C couplingi in one reaction vessel. The sequence is initialed by enolate nucleophiles fA and is terminated by aldehydes or acrylate electrophiles fC. The utility of this protocol is for rapid assembly of complex stnictures from simple and readily available components. A short total synthesis of a pyrroLmdine alkaloid is presented in Scheme 10.16. ... 

Arai and co-workers have used chiral ammonium salts 89 and 90 (Scheme 1.25) derived from cinchona alkaloids as phase-transfer catalysts for asymmetric Dar-zens reactions (Table 1.12). They obtained moderate enantioselectivities for the addition of cyclic 92 (Entries 4—6) [43] and acyclic 91 (Entries 1-3) chloroketones [44] to a range of alkyl and aromatic aldehydes [45] and also obtained moderate selectivities on treatment of chlorosulfone 93 with aromatic aldehydes (Entries 7-9) [46, 47]. Treatment of chlorosulfone 93 with ketones resulted in low enantioselectivities. 

Oxa-tetrahydropyridines are interesting intermediates for the preparation of pharmaceuticals and natural product based alkaloid systems. A modified Hantzsch reaction was developed under microwave irradiation for the preparation of 2-oxa-tetrahydropyridines 173 by reaction of Meldrum s acid, a /3-ketoester and an aldehyde, using NH4OAC as the source of ammonia (Scheme 62). Yields ranged from 81 to 91% at temperatures of 100-130 °C depending on the substrate (the aldehyde) employed. All the products obtained have the same structure except for the aromatic substituent in position 4 [109]. 

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