Abstract: | The present review gives the main advances made in the laboratory of alkaloid chemistry of the Institute of Plant Substances of the Usbekistan Republic Academy of Sciences IKhRV AN RUz] (Tashkent) over 50 years in the field of the chemistry of diterpene, isoquinoline, quinoline, steroid, indole, spiropiperidine, sulfur-containing, tropane, pyrrolidine, quinazoline, quinolizidine, amaryllis, and pyrrolizidine bases and possible routes for the biosynthesis of some of these groups of alkaloids.Institute of Chemistry of Plant Substances, Uzbekistan Republic Academy of Sciences, Tashkent. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 1, pp. 3–33, January–February, 1993. |