Blueberry, European

BILBERRY FRUIT (EUROPEAN BLUEBERRY — VACCINIUM MYRTILLUS)... 

In particular, the European blueberry (V. myrtillus L.), (in North America and in this text called bilberry) is known as an ancient medical plant (Ulltveit, 1998). 

The alkaloids to be discussed in this section are (4R,9aR)-(+)-myrtine (1097) and (4R,9aS)-(—)-epimyrtine (1098) (Figure 24). These simple metabolites of the common bilberry Vaccinium myrtillus), also known as the European blueberry, receive occasional attention as targets for synthesis. Since the previous review in this series of volumes was pubhshed, six enantiose-lective routes and two approaches to the racemic alkaloids were reported. The latter wiU be described first. 

After hydrolysis, fruits and fruit products with high maximum SIF were strawberry (0.3-102.0), blackberry (0-67.4), grapefruit (54.5), blond orange (42.0-53.8), lime (46.8), bog bilberry (16.5 0.6), black currant (3.7-39.0), lemon (35.1-38.8), European cranberry (11.4—37.5), American cranberry (12.3-27.9), rabbiteye blueberry (0-22.3), lingonberry (0-21.5), half-highbush blueberry (8.5-17.3), and black crowberry (9.7-10.5). Other fruit sources had maximum SIF of less than 10.0. 

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