Chemistry:Melicopidine

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Melicopidine is an alkaloid. Its formula is C
17
H
15
NO
5
. It, along with melicopine and melicopicine, is named for the Australian rutaceae (Melicope fareana) from which it was first isolated.[1]

Occurrence

As an alkaloid, melicopidine naturally occurs in and has been isolated from Medicosma fareana[2] and Sarcomelicope megistophylla[3] in addition to Melicope fareana.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Crow, Wd; Price, Jr (1949). "Alkaloids of the Australian Rutaceae: Melicope fareana. II. Preliminary Examination of Melicopine, Melicopidine, and Melicopicine" (in en). Australian Journal of Chemistry 2 (2): 255. doi:10.1071/CH9490255. ISSN 0004-9425. Bibcode1949AuSRA...2..255C. 
  2. Habtemariam, Solomon; Waterman, Peter G.; Hartley, T.G. (September 1996). "Fareanine and fareanol from leaves of Medicosma fareana" (in en). Phytochemistry 43 (1): 291–294. doi:10.1016/0031-9422(96)00220-8. Bibcode1996PChem..43..291H. 
  3. Mitaku, Sofia; Fokialakis, Nikolas; Magiatis, Prokopios; Tillequin, François (February 2007). "Alkaloids from Sarcomelicope megistophylla" (in en). Fitoterapia 78 (2): 169–170. doi:10.1016/j.fitote.2006.10.003. PMID 17207940.