Ancistrocladinium A and B, the first N,C-coupled naphthyldihydroisoquinoline alkaloids, from a Congolese ancistrocladus species |
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Authors: | Bringmann Gerhard Kajahn Inga Reichert Matthias Pedersen Sarah E H Faber Johan H Gulder Tanja Brun Reto Christensen Søren B Ponte-Sucre Alicia Moll Heidrun Heubl Günther Mudogo Virima |
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Affiliation: | Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, D-97074 Würzburg, Germany. bringman@chemie.uni-wuerzburg.de |
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Abstract: | The isolation and structural elucidation of three novel-type naphthylisoquinoline alkaloids, ancistrocladinium A and B (the latter along with its atropisomer), from a Congolese Ancistrocladus species collected in the habitat Yeteto is reported. Their structures, including all stereochemical features, were elucidated by spectroscopic, chemical, and chiroptical methods. Ancistrocladinium A and B are the first N,C-coupled naphthyldihydroisoquinoline alkaloids found in nature, i.e., with an iminium-aryl axis. Although ancistrocladinium A, which is N,8'-coupled, is configurationally stable at this axis, ancistrocladinum B and its rotational isomer are based on a hitherto unprecedented N,6'-coupling type, with a slow rotation about the hetero biaryl axis at room temperature; they thus occur as a 46:54 mixture of two configurationally semistable atropo-diastereomers. For the isomerization of (P)-ancistrocladinium B to its (M)-diastereomer and for the opposite direction, the Gibbs free energies of activation were determined to be DeltaG double dagger1 = 105.8 kJ mol-1 and DeltaG double dagger2 = 105.7 kJ mol-1, respectively. In addition, the compounds were shown to have promising antileishmanial activities. |
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