Abstract: | The alkaloid 8-acetylexcelsine has been isolated from the epigeal part ofAconitum kirinense Nakai. Its structure has been established with the aid of chemical transformations and spectral characteristics.Institute of Chemistry of Plant Substances Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR, Tashkent. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 2, pp. 258–261, March–April, 1991. |