Alkaloids chemotaxonomy

Izaddoost M (1975) Alkaloid chemotaxonomy of the genus Sophora. Phytochemistry 14(l) 203-204... 

During the past two decades a great number of papers have been published on the isolation, structure elucidation, synthesis and transformation, biogenesis, chemotaxonomy, and pharmacology of indole alkaloids. In this chapter we summarize the new results that appeared from 1968 to mid 1984 for the cory-nantheine-yohimbine group of monoterpene indole alkaloids with greater emphasis on their chemistry, excluding the related oxindoles and heteroyohimbines. 

Kinghom, A.D. and Balandrin, M.F. (1984). Quinolizidine alkaloids of the Leguminosae Structural types, analysis, chemotaxonomy and biological activities, in Pelletier, S.W., Ed., Alkaloids chemical and biological perspectives, John Wiley and Sons, New York, pp. 105-148. 

Griffin WJ and Lin GD (2000) Chemotaxonomy and geographical distribution of tropane alkaloids. Phytochemistry 53, 623-637. 

Chemotaxonomy of Papaveraceae and Fumariaceae, 29,1 (1986) Chinese medicinal plants, alkaloids from, 32,241 (1988)... 

Ammodendrine (258) has been isolated from a number of plant genera, usually in the presence of quinolizidine alkaloids [592], Its presence, sometimes accompanied by related alkaloids such as A -methylammodendrine (259), A -acetylhystrine (262) and smipine (264) can be useful in chemotaxonomy [593], The root parasite Viscum cruciatum was found to take up 258, along with quinolizidine alkloids from its host Relama sphaerocarpa [594],... 

The chemotaxonomy elaborated by Santavy 209) for this group of alkaloids should have greater significance as the biosynthetic pathways are elaborated. 

During the past years the increasing interest and research in the isolation, chemistry, biochemistry, and chemotaxonomy of the Papaveraceae alkaloids had led to the publication of a great number of original... 

The alkaloids argemonine (54a), isonorargemonine (54b), (—)-2,9-dimethoxy-3-hydroxypavinane (54c) (30), munitagine (55a), nd platy-cerine (55b) were isolated from A. munita ssp. rotundata and A. gracilenta (20) (Scheme 20). The pavine alkaloids were also found in the plants in the form of their methohydroxides (34) and N-oxides (20). On the basis of the alkaloids found in different Argemone species, Stermitz and McMurtrey postulated the theory of the chemotaxonomy and the biogenesis as outlined in Scheme 20 (20). The biosynthesis of pavine alkaloids has also been discussed on p. 439. 

The tetrahydroprotoberberine alkaloids with three oxygen substituents located in the ring D have been found in Stephania rotunda (Menisper-maceae) (588). These types of alkaloids will probably be helpful in future chemotaxonomy. 

Stermitz et al. have recently reviewed the chemotaxonomy and the systematization of Papaver and Argemone plants (36, 833). They have also pointed out the characteristic features of the individual genera and sections from the viewpoint of the alkaloids. On the basis of the contained alkaloids, they have tried to differentiate the A. subfusiformis taxa from A. poly-anthemos (Scheme 20). According to these authors, the benzo-phenanthridine alkaloids (including the N-nor derivatives) may not be significant chemotaxonomic markers because they are formed in callus tissues (269). The alkaloids contained in the seeds of A. mexicana (grown in the U.S.S.R. and in Vietnam) have been studied (834). 

Preininger and Santavy studied the chemotaxonomy of the plants of the section Macrantha Elkan and Miltantha Bernh. (234). They conclude that the plants of these two sections contain enzymatic systems which are able to synthesize the (R) and the (5) series of the individual alkaloids. 

Genest, K. and M.R. Sahasrabudhe 1966. Alkaloids and lipids of Ipomoea, Rivea and Convolvulus and their application to chemotaxonomy Economic Botany 20 (4) 416-428. 

The partial ether cleavage of methoxy- and methylenedioxy-substituted isoquinoline alkaloids has been reviewed in a new journal. Additional reviews concerning the use of Reissert compounds in the total synthesis of isoquinoline alkaloids and related compounds, electro-oxidation and isoquinoline alkaloid biosynthesis, and the synthesis of isoquinoline alkaloids by a systematic design have appeared in early issues of the same journal. The chemotaxonomy of alkaloids, together with distribution within plants, biosynthesis, structural classification, and physiological activity, has been treated in a monograph. ... 

A recent review on the topic of chemotaxonomy of alkaloids deals in part with the Erythrina group. ... 

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