| Abstract: | The review is denoted to an analysis of the literature on the investigation of dimeric quinoline alkaloids, which are divided into four groups depending on the structures of the terpenoid moiety. The natural sources, structures, stereochemical features, possible biogenetic schemes of formation, and methods of synthesizing the alkaloids of this group are considered.Institute of the Chemistry of Plant Substances, USSR Academy of Sciences, Tashkent. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 1, pp. 4–18, January–February, 1989. |
