Description
Obtained from Nerine sarniensis and Zephyranthes candida, this alkaloid crystal_x0002_lizes as colourless plates from Me2CO and has [0:]0 + 155° (CHC13). It contains
three methoxyl groups, a secondary hydroxyl group and a methylimino group,
the latter in a five-membered ring. Oxidation with KMn04 in Me2CO furnishes
albomaculine.
References
Boit., Chern. Ber., 87, 1704 (1954)
Boit, Ehmke., ibid, 88, 1590 (1955)
Boit, Ehmke., ibid, 90, 57 (1957)
Jeffs, Hawksworth., Tetrahedron Lett., 217 (1963)