The New Drug Laboratory, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022, P. R. China
Abstract:
A simple route for the preparation of lipo-alkaloid is presented. When aconitine or one of its analogues is heated with a fatty acid for 20 min at 100 ℃ in water, the C8 acetyl group of aconitine is displaced by a long chain fatty acyl group. The structures of the products were characterized by electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry.