Alkaloids nomenclature

The alkaloids nomenclature has not been systematized. The commonly used systems for alkaloid classification are designed according to the plant genera or to the basis of molecular structure similarities. 

Dibenz[h,e]azepine-6,11-diones ent-Morphinan nomenclature, 1, 29 Morphinan, 1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-nomenclature, 1, 29 14-a-Morphinan, N-methyl-synthesis, 1, 480 Morphinans nomenclature, 1, 29 as pharmaceuticals, 1, 148 synthesis, 2, 377 Morphine, 2, 512 as analgesic, 1, 167 as metabolite of normorphine, 1, 235 as pharmaceutical, 1, 146, 147, 148 synthesis, 1, 480 Morphine alkaloids structure, 4, 534 Morphin-7-en nomenclature, 1, 29 Morphinone, dihydro-as pharmaceutical, 1, 147 Morpholine — see also 1,4-Oxazine, tetrahydrocarcinogenicity, 1, 229 corrosion inhibitor, 1, 409 metabolism, 1, 226 nomenclature, 3, 996 structure, 2, 5 synthesis, 2, 89 Morpholine, 4-aciyloyl-polymers, 1, 291 Morpholine, alkenyl-polymers, 1, 291... 

The nomenclature and numbering of formulas for berberine and its derivatives is based on the system adopted by Buck, Perkin and Stevens for the parent substance of the series, protoberberine (XXIV). Awe has suggested that tetrahydroproioberberine should be called berbine and used as the basis of a system of names for these alkaloids. 

The nomenclature used to describe the fused benzene-pyrrole-pyridine system of the compounds under discussion has been repeatedly modified, and the compounds have been numbered in an astonishing variety of ways since Perkin and Robinson introduced the name carboline for the ring system, which was encountered for the first time in the harmala alkaloids. In the earliest version of carboline nomenclature, the parent compound of the series, whose trivial name was norharman, was referred to as 4-carboline and numbered as in 1. Harmine (2) then became ll-methoxy-3-methyl-4-carboline. 

In this chapter the proposed (5) division of secophthalideisoquinolines into the four subgroups and the nomenclature have been preserved. Since the publication of the most recent review (5), information about the synthesis of the missing ( )-narceine enol lactone (102) (87), the isolation of ( )-fumaramine (112) from Fumaria vailanti (88), and the discovery of a new seco alkaloid, coryrutine (118), from Corydalis rutifolia (89) has appeared. In the former plant fumaramine (111) (55) and in the latter N-methylhydrasteine... 

This contribution is an attempt to close this gap and therefore the organization of the chapter will be as follows. After a short outline of problems related to the nomenclature and delimitation of genera within the tribe Tabemaemontaneae, a summary of chemically investigated Tabernaemontana plants will be presented. Subsequently, the structure elucidation and chemistry of the most relevant alkaloids will be discussed. Finally, some noteworthly pharmacological activities will be outlined. 

Though these alkaloids are not truly composed of two identical monomeric units, they are popularly named dimers or dimeric alkaloids. We prefer to avoid this incorrect nomenclature and would like to encourage the use of the more adequate binary terminology. In another consideration of nomenclature, we describe quaternary salts derived from an imine functionality as imonium salts, in accord with the descriptor for other onium salts (ammonium, oxonium, etc.), rather than by the frequently used iminium terminology. This nomenclature was suggested earlier (/). 

In this series, three earlier reviews on carbazole alkaloids were published by Kapil (1), Husson (2), and Chakraborty (3) in the Volumes 13,26, and 44, respectively. The present chapter introduces a new classification of carbazole alkaloids and summarizes the recent synthetic efforts. The nomenclature of carbazole alkaloids used in this review is that of Chemical Abstracts. As shown in Scheme 1.1, the conventional tricyclic ring system of carbazole 1 is denoted by A, B, and C, and the numbering starts from ring A. The term carbazole generally refers to a 9H-carbazole. 

Although all alkaloids can be named by the principles already outlined in this article, the cumbersome nature of such names for complex ring systems makes it desirable to use trivial parent names for some large heterocyclic skeletons. It is preferable for such trivial names to refer to skeletons with no substituents (or very few), and it is often convenient for them to carry inherent stereochemical implications. The most extensive source of these names is the Chemical Abstracts Index Guide (or the Ninth Collective Index Nomenclature Manual), but the names given here do not correspond, in many cases, to those in common use, and IUPAC recommendations, when they appear, may well differ in some respects. Some of the principal skeletons listed by Chemical Abstracts are illustrated (122-130). 

The nomenclature of this group is at present under discussion by IUPAC. As for alkaloids, trivial names for large fundamental cyclic skeletons are used. Those employed in Chemical Abstracts are illustrated (131-133). 

The IUPAC Definitive Rules for Nomenclature of Steroids15 contain proposals for naming steroid alkaloids and steroids containing fused... 

Nomenclature for the Homoerythrina group is a problem because only a few of the alkaloids have been given trivial names. Since the structures of the Homoerythrina group parallel those of the Erythrina group we have... 

In 1935 ergometrine was discovered in four different laboratories almost simultaneously and described under four different names (74, 75, 76, 77). Although the names ergometrine and ergobasine have remained in use in Europe, ergonovine was adopted in the USA as the official nomenclature for the specific uterotonic ergot alkaloid. 

Fig. 10. Structures of 3,5-disubstituted pyrrolizidines from dendrobatid and ranid frogs andbufonid toads (31,73,81, and J. W. Daly, H. M. Garraffo, andT. F. Spande, unpublished). Absolute configurations are unknown. It is assumed, based on analogy to other amphibian alkaloids, that n-alkyl side chains are present. The configurational nomenclature for these pyrrolizidines follows the system devised by Sonnet el at. (122) for 3,5-disubstituted indolizi-dines where the H-S and H-8 configurations are related to that at H-3 and are either cis (Z) or trans (E).

Figure 1. Diagram illustrating the common nomenclature for polyhydroxylated piperidine alkaloids, (a) 5-Amino-5-deoxy-D-glucopyranose has the trivial name nojirimycin, (b) 1-deoxynojirimycin (DNJ) is the trivial name for l,5-dideoxy-l,5-imino-D-glucitol and similarly (c) 1-deoxymannojirimycin (DMJ) is the common name for l,5-dideoxy-l,5-imino-D-mannitol.

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