Abstract
The fraction of weak bases fromColchicum speciosum Stev. (family Liliaceae) has yielded a new compound — specioseine. The structure of 10-demethylspeciosine has been established for this base by chemical and spectral methods.
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V. I. Lenin Tashkent State University. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 2, pp. 253–258, March–April, 1991.
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Chommadov, B.C. Alkaloid specioseine from Colchicum speciosum. Chem Nat Compd 27, 218–222 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00629764
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