“…Spectral studies of poncitrin established the partial structure X for this material and the correct assemblage of these groups, XI, was evident when NOE experiments showed that, the O-methyl group was in close proximity to both C-4 and C-6 (11). In an analogous manner t he configuration of the ethylidene side chain in the alkaloid dehydrovoachalotine XII (12) was established by the observation of an NOE between the side chain methyl group and 15 (H). The existance of NOE's between 4-(CH3) and the protons on C-2 and C-6 and between 10-CH3 and 2-H combined with the absence of such an effect between 4-Me and 1(H) and between 10-Me and 5-H, establishes the solution conformation of dihydrotamaulipin-A acetate as that shown in XIII (13).…”