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The alkaloids of Symphytum × uplandicum (Russian comfrey)

CCJ Culvenor, JA Edgar, JL Frahn and LW Smith

Australian Journal of Chemistry 33(5) 1105 - 1113
Published: 1980

Abstract

Eight pyrrolizidine alkaloids have been identified in the leaves of Symphytum × uplandicum Nyman (Russian comfrey). They are echimidine (1), symphytine (2), lycopsamine (3), intermedine (4) and four new alkaloids, 7-acetyllycopsamine (5), 7-acetylintermedine (6), symlandine (7)(7-angelyl-9-viridiflorylretronecine) and uplandicine (8) (7-acetyl- 9-echimidinylretronecine).

https://doi.org/10.1071/CH9801105

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