Veratrum alkaloids cevane group

Chapter 4. The Cevane Group of Veratrum Alkaloids John V. Greenhill and Paul Grayshan... 

J. Tomko and Z. Voticky in Chapter 1 of Volume 14 (1973). Most recendy, the cevane subgroup of the veratrum alkaloids has been covered by John V. Greenhill and Paul Grayshan in Chapter 4 of Volume 41 (1992). Chapter 4 of the present volume compiles newly isolated alkaloids of the solanum and veratrum groups, their chemistry including recent total syntheses, and their biological properties. 

A simpler group of compounds with the cevane skeleton occurs in the genus Fritillaria (Liliaceae). Medicinally, the most important alkaloids of Veratrum are the polyesters of protoverine (87) that have hypotensive properties. 

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