Structure of Echivulgarine, a Pyrrolizidine alkaloid isolated from the pollen of Echium vulgare

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Volumn 63, Issue 33, 2015, Pages 7421-7427

  Cairns, Eric ^a   Hashmi, Muhammad Ali ^b   Singh, A Jonathan ^b   Eakins, Galen ^b   Lein, Matthias ^b,c   Keyzers, Robert ^b  

^a GNS Science   (New Zealand)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^c MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Absolute configuration; DFT; qNMR; Structural reassignment

Indexed keywords

ALKALOIDS; CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS; DICHROISM; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PLANTS (BOTANY);

ABSOLUTE CONFIGURATION; DFT; ELECTRONIC CIRCULAR DICHROISM; PYRROLIZIDINE ALKALOID; QNMR; SPECTROSCOPIC DATA; STRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION; STRUCTURAL REASSIGNMENT;

METABOLITES;

ECHIVULGARINE; PYRROLIZIDINE ALKALOID;

CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ECHIUM; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; POLLEN;

CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; ECHIUM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; POLLEN; PYRROLIZIDINE ALKALOIDS;

EID: 84940518238     PISSN: 00218561     EISSN: 15205118     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.5b02402     Document Type: Article

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