E. Leete
May 1, 1972
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Phytochemistry
Abstract
Abstract Tropine-3β- 3 H, N -methyl- 14 C was fed to Datura meteloides plants. After 7 days radioactive meteloidine, scopolamine, hyoscyamine, and 7β-hydroxy-3α,6β-ditigloyloxytropane were isolated from the plants and found to have essentially the same 3 H/ 14 C ratio as in the administered tropine. Degradation of the meteloidine established that all its tritium was located at C-3 and all the 14 C was on the N -methyl group, indicating that tropine is a direct precursor of teloidine.