Biosynthesis of pinidine

E Leete, KN Juneau

Index: Leete; Juneau Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1969 , vol. 91, # 20 p. 5614 - 5618

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Abstract

Abstract: The administration of sodium acetate-l-lF to Pinus jeffreyi plants afforded radioactive pinidine (2-methyl-6-(2-trans-propenyl) piperidine). A systematic degradation of the alkaloid indicated that almost all the radioactivity was located on carbon atoms 2, 4, 6, and 9, and was equally distributed between these positions. This result favors the hypothesis that this piperidine alkaloid is derived from a ten-carbon chain formed by the ...