
%0 Journal Article
%A Diment, JA 
%A Ritchie, E 
%A Taylor, WC 
%T The chemical constituents of Australian <I>Zanthoxylum</I> species. III. The constituents of <I>Z. parviflorum</I> Benth.; The structure of parvifloral; Some observations on the biogenesis of furoquinoline alkaloids
%J Australian Journal of Chemistry
%D 1967/03/01
%V 20
%N 3
%P 565-573
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/CH9670565
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/CH9670565 
%X The leaves of Zanthoxylum parviflorum Benth. yielded lupeol, sitosterol, and skimmianine; the bark gave sucrose, hesperidin, lupeol, skimmianine, chelerythrine chloride, (-)-&#945;-canadine methiodide, and magnoflorine iodide. From the wood there were isolated hesperidin, sitosterol, dictamnine, skimmianine, platydesmine, and a new phenolic aldehyde, parvifloral.   Spectroscopic data and biogenetic considerations suggested that parvifloral was 5-prenylconiferaldehyde, and the assignment of structure was confirmed by a rational synthesis.   Oxidation of platydesmine with iodine/lead tetraacetate gave dictamnine. The significance of this result to the biogenesis of furoquinoline alkaloids is discussed. 
