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Isocryptolepine, an alkaloid recently isolated from the roots ofCryptolepis sanguinotenta, was synthesized by selective methylation at the N(5) atom of 11H-indolo(3,2-c]quinoline with excess Mel in toluene.
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Translated fromIzvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 11, pp.2795–2796, November,1996
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Dubovitskii, S.V., Radchenko, O.S. & Norikov, V.L. Synthesis of isocryptolepine, an alkaloid fromCryptolepis sanguinolenta . Russ Chem Bull 45, 2656–2657 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01431136
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