Abstract: | Four new alkaloids — aervine (10-hydroxycanthin-6-one), methylaervine (10-methoxycanthin-6-one), aervoside (10- -D-glucopyranosyloxycanthin-6-one), and aervolanine (3-(6-methyoxy- -carbolin-1-yl)propionic acid), and also the known alkaloids canthin-6-one and 3-( -carbolin-1-yl)propionic acid have been isolated from the herbAerva lanata Juss. Their structures have been established on the basis of chemical and spectral characteristics.All-Union Scientific-Research Institute of Medicinal Plants Scientific Production Combine, Moscow. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 3, pp. 388–394, May–June, 1991. |