| Abstract: | Continuing our systematic 15N NMR study of isoquinoline alkaloids, we report a contribution extending our previous paper. The 15N NMR chemical shifts and 15N,1H long‐range coupling pathways of tertiary and quaternary isoquinoline alkaloids of several constitutional types are presented. The selected compounds belong to the protoberberine, proaporphine, pavinane, rhoeadine and phtalideisoquinoline classes of alkaloids and were investigated by gradient‐selected inverse‐detected multiple bond correlation experiments (GHMBC and GSQMBC). In addition, x‐ray data and the principal geometric parameters of stylopine, mecambridine, norchelerythrine, isothebaine and mecambrine are reported and discussed. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
