Alkaloids of Vinca major

Summary 1. From the epigeal part ofVinca major have been isolated the known bases akuammicine, vincamajine, vincamajoridine, and ervine, and the new alkaloid majorinine with the composition C₂₂H₂₄N₂O₄, mp 195–196°C.2. On the basis of chemical transformations and IR, UV, mass, and PMR spectra using the methods of double resonance collapse and INDOR the structure of 21-hydroxy-10-methoxyvinorine and the stereochemistry (I) have been established for majorinine.Institute of the Chemistry of Plant Substances, Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR, Tashkent. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 3, pp. 382–387, May–June, 1977.