Structure of the alkaloid schoberine

The structure of an alkaloid of a new type, schoberine, isolated from plants of the genusNitraria has been established by the x-ray structural method as perhydro-1,10-propano-4a,8a-diazaphenanthrene. Its chemical and spectral properties have been studied.Institute of the Chemistry of Plant Substances, Uzbek SSR Academy of Sciences, Tashkent. Translated from Khimiya Prirondnykh Soedinenii, No. 1, pp. 30–34, January–February, 1989.