Abstract: | The results are given of an investigation of the structure of the new diterpene alkaloid dictysine C21H33NO3 isolated from the epigeal part ofDelphinium dictyocarpum DC. On the basis of the results of a study of chemical and spectral characteristics, dictysine has been shown to have the sengorine skeleton, with hydroxy groups at C15, C16, and C20.Institute of the Chemistry of Plant Substances, Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR, Tashkent. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 6, pp. 812–817, November–December, 1979. |