Alkaloids and limonoids from Bouchardatia neurococca: systematic significance

Phytochemistry. 2003 Sep;64(2):609-15. doi: 10.1016/s0031-9422(03)00205-x.

Abstract

Five alkaloids, four beta-indoloquinazoline and one furoquinoline, and four terpenoids, three limonoids and one modified sesquiterpene, have been obtained from the aerial parts of Bouchardatia neurococca (Rutaceae). Two of the alkaloids, 1,2-dihydroxyrutaecarpine and 2-(2-[3-formylindolyl])-(3H)-quinazolin-4-one (bouchardatine), and two of the limonoids, 23-oxo-21xi-hydroxy-21,23-dihydroveprisone (veprisonic acid) and 21-oxo-23xi-hydroxy-21,23-dihydroveprisone (isoveprisonic acid) are new. The pattern of secondary metabolites isolated is rather unusual in the Rutaceae and is reminiscent of Tetradium, a genus with which Bouchardatia has not previously been associated.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Alkaloids / chemistry*
  • Alkaloids / isolation & purification
  • Evodia / chemistry
  • Evodia / genetics
  • Limonins / chemistry*
  • Limonins / isolation & purification
  • Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Biomolecular
  • Rutaceae / chemistry*
  • Rutaceae / classification*

Substances

  • Alkaloids
  • Limonins