Isolation of peganine and deoxypeganine from the total alkaloids ofPeganum harmala through their complex salts

Abtsract The possibility has been shown of combining the processes of the reduction of deoxyvasicinone and vasicinone to deoxypeganine and peganine and the isolation of the latter in the form of complex salts from the natural total mixture of alkaloids.Institute of the Chemistry of Plant Substances, Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, fax (3712) 89 14 75. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 1, pp. 70–73, January–February, 1996. Original article submitted April 5, 1994.