Derris elliptica, alkaloid

In 1976, 1-deoxynojirimycin (2) was discovered as a natural product in a Moms species and coined moranoline.26 Incidentally, in the same year, a novel type of alkaloid was found in the liana plant, Derris elliptica, a native of Borneo but widespread in the tropics, and it was identified as 2,5-dideoxy-2,5-imino-D-mannitol (7, Scheme 3), also known as DMDP (2,5-dihydroxymethyl-3,4-dihy droxypyrrolidine).27... 

Derr is or rotenone is a poisonous alkaloid that has long been used by indigenous peoples of Southeast Asia as arrow and fish poisons. Rotenone is now used widely as a rodenticide to kill small mammals and as an insecticide to kill pest insects. This chemical is mostly extracted from the plants Derris elliptica and D. malaccensis. 

A series of piperidine alkaloids with hydroxyl substitutions have been isolated from a number of higher plants (54-56) (Fig. 29.19) (Herbert, 1986, 1988). Among these plant species are Lonchocarpus sericeus, L. costaricensis and Derris elliptica (Fabaceae), Moms species (Moraceae), Fagopyrum esculentum (Polygonaceae), and a fern of the... 

Dideoxy-2,5-imino-D-mannito I Alkaloid from the leaves of Derris elliptica and the seeds of Lonchocarpus sericeus (Leguminosae). Glycosidase inhibitor. Cryst. (EtOH/MezCO/EtOAc). 

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