| Abstract: | The alkaloid compositions of the roots, young shoots, and leaves of Berberis sibirica have been studied, and berberine, palmatine, columbamine, berberrubine, oxyacanthine, berbamine, 8-oxoberberine, 8-oxoberrberubine, pakistanine, and pronunciferine, and also the new base N-acetylhomoveratrylamine have been isolated. This is the first time that any of these alkaloids, except berberine, have been isolated from this plant. Andizhan State Medical Institute. Institute of the Chemistry of Plant Substances of the Academy of Sciences of the Uzbekistan Republic, Tashkent. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 3, pp. 424–428, May–June, 1993. |
