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JOURNAL OF NATURAL PRODUCTS
Volume 72, Issue 9, Pages 1708-1711Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/np900294c
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The isolation of (Z,Z)-pandanamine (1) and its corresponding isomers (Z,E)-pandanamine (2) and (E,E)-pandanamine (3) from Stichoneuron calcicola of the family Stemonaceae is of outstanding chemosystematic importance. This alkaloid was previously only known from the family Pandanaceae, where it was accompanied by a series of pyrrolidines, collectively called Pandanus alkaloids. The pyrrolidines pandamarilactonines A (4), B (5), C (6), and D (7) were also detected in the present study, most likely representing artificial cyclization products of pandanamine (1-3) formed by acidic conditions during chromatographic separation on silica gel. Similar structures were found in various Stemona alkaloids, suggesting a close relationship between the two plant families. Structurally, pandanamine (1-3) can be regarded as a direct precursor of croomine (8), originally isolated from Croomia, a genus closely related to Stichoneuron, but later also found in various Stemona species. The co-occurrence of pandanamine (1-3), croomine (8), and stichoneurin (9) in the family Stemonaceae represents a sound argument for a new interpretation of the biogenetic origin of Stenlona alkaloids and at the same time substantiates the removal of the family from the order Dioscoreales and its inclusion into Pandanales, as already suggested by DNA sequencing.
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