Abstract
Phytochemical study on the EtOAc extract of the seed of Erythrina addisoniae (Leguminosae) resulted in the isolation of a new erythrinan alkaloid, erysovine-N-oxide (1), along with eight known alkaloids, erysosalvinone (2), erysodine (3), 1H-indole-3-propanamide (4), glucoerysodine (5), erysotrine (6), erysovine (7), erythraline (8) and erysopine (9). Their chemical structures were identified on the basis of physicochemical and spectroscopic analyses.
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Cui, L., Thuong, P.T., Fomum, Z.T. et al. A new erythrinan alkaloid from the seed of Erythrina addisoniae . Arch. Pharm. Res. 32, 325–328 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12272-009-1302-2
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