Structure elucidation of an aspidofractinine-type monoterpene indole alkaloid from Melodinus reticulatus
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Adrien Jagora
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Vincent Dumontet
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Pierre Le Pogam
Abstract
The structure and complete NMR assignments of aspidoreticulofractine, an aspidofractinine N-oxide, are reported. Its structure was elucidated based on a combination of spectroscopic techniques including 1D and 2D NMR, high-resolution mass spectrometry, and electronic circular dichroism.
Funding source: Agence Nationale de la Recherche
Award Identifier / Grant number: ANR-20-CE43-001
Acknowledgements
The authors are indebted to the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche for funding this study (Grant ANR-20-CE43-001). The authors are very grateful to the North Province of New Caledonia, which facilitated our field investigation. Leo Goehrs (Alionis) is gratefully acknowledged for the donation of the computing hardware.
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Author contributions: All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.
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Research funding: This work was supported by The Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-20-CE43-001).
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Conflict of interest statement: The authors declare no conflicts of interest regarding this article.
HRESIMS, 1D and 2D NMR spectra of compound 1, and Cartesian coordinates of the two considered N-oxide epimers are available as supplementary material.
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