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Two Alkaloids from Asparagus cochinchinensis

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The phytochemical investigation of extracts from the roots of Asparagus cochinchinensis yielded a new indole alkaloid dimer, N-methyl-2,2′-ditryptamine (1), and a known β-carboline alkaloid, (–)-(1S,3S)-1-methyl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-β-carboline-3-carboxylic acid (2). Their structures were established on the basis of spectral data, particularly by the use of 1D NMR and several 2D shift-correlated NMR pulse sequences (1H–1H COSY, HSQC and HMBC).

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The authors gratefully acknowledge financial support from the Science and Technology Department of Zhejiang Province (2012C23112).

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  1. College of Pharmaceutical Science, Zhejiang University of Technology, 18 Chaowang Road, 310014, Hangzhou, P. R. China

    Xing-Nuo Li, Chu Chu, Dong-Ping Cheng, Sheng-Qiang Tong & Ji-Zhong Yan

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Published in Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 2, March–April, 2014, pp. 286–287.

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Li, XN., Chu, C., Cheng, DP. et al. Two Alkaloids from Asparagus cochinchinensis . Chem Nat Compd 50, 326–328 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10600-014-0943-7

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