Six components were Isolated from the fruit ofPiper sarmentosum. Two of the components are the ubiquitous β-sitosterol and the known unsaturated amide, pellitorine, 3. The other four components, which are new natural products, consist of the aromatic alkene 1, the pyrrole amide2 and two unsaturated pyrrolidine amides which have been given the names sarmentine 4 and sarmentosine5. Components1 and2 were synthesized to establish ...