Structure of vasicol

The structure of bromovasicol has been established on the basis of the results of x-ray structural analysis as 4-bromo-2-(3-hydroxy-2-oxypyrrolinomethl)aniline. Vasicol was isolated from the plantPeganum harmala in the form of 2-(3-hydroxy-2-oxopyrrolidinomethyl)aniline.Institute of the Chemistry of Plants Substances, Uzbek SSR Academy of Sciences, Tashkent. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 1, pp. 18–23, January–February, 1989.