TY - JOUR A1 - Tshitenge, Dieudonné Tshitenge A1 - Feineis, Doris A1 - Mudogo, Virima A1 - Kaiser, Marcel A1 - Brun, Reto A1 - Bringmann, Gerhard T1 - Antiplasmodial Ealapasamines A-C,'Mixed' Naphthylisoquinoline Dimers from the Central African Liana Ancistrocladus ealaensis JF - Scientific Reports N2 - Three unusual heterodimeric naphthylisoquinoline alkaloids, named ealapasamines A-C (1–3), were isolated from the leaves of the tropical plant Ancistrocladus ealaensis J. Léonard. These ‘mixed’, constitutionally unsymmetric dimers are the first stereochemically fully assigned cross-coupling products of a 5,8′- and a 7,8′-coupled naphthylisoquinoline linked via C-6′ in both naphthalene portions. So far, only two other West and Central Ancistrocladus species were known to produce dimers with a central 6,6″-axis, yet, in contrast to the ealapasamines, usually consisting of two 5,8′-coupled monomers, like e.g., in michellamine B. The new dimers 1–3 contain six elements of chirality, four stereogenic centers and the two outer axes, while the central biaryl axis is configurationally unstable. The elucidation of the complete stereostructures of the ealapasamines was achieved by the interplay of spectroscopic methods including HRESIMS, 1D and 2D NMR (in particular ROESY measurements), in combination with chemical (oxidative degradation) and chiroptical (electronic circular dichroism) investigations. The ealapasamines A-C display high antiplasmodial activities with excellent half-maximum inhibition concentration values in the low nanomolar range. KW - structure elucidation KW - stereochemistry KW - Ancistrocladus ealaensis KW - dimers Y1 - 2017 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-170645 VL - 7 IS - 5767 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bringmann, Gerhard A1 - Ortmann, Thomas A1 - Zagst, Rainer A1 - Schoener, Bernd A1 - Assi, Laurent Ake A1 - Burschka, Christian T1 - +/- Dioncophyllacine A, a naphthylisoquinoline alkaloid with a 4-methoxy substituent from the leaves of Triphyophyllum peltatum N2 - The isolation and structure elucidation of rac-dioncophyllacine A from the leaves of Triphyophyllun peltatum, is described. Unlike all other naphthylisoquinoline alkaloids, this fully dehydrogenated representative has an additional methoxy group at C-4, the position of which is deduced from NOE results. Dioncophyllacine A has a 7,1' site of the biaryl axis, as in dioncophylline A. Its constitution is confirmed by an X-ray structure analysis, which shows that the crystalline form of this new alkaloid is racemic. KW - Dioncophyllaceae KW - Triphyophyllum peltaturn KW - Dioncophyllaceae leaves KW - (± )-dioncophyllacine A KW - naphthylisoquinoline alkaloids KW - structure elucidation Y1 - 1992 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-31873 ER -