The plants Delphinium potaninii W. T. WANG and its variety D. potaninii var. jiufengshanense W. J. ZHANG et G. H. CHEN 1) grow in Sichuan province, China. Their roots are used as a folk medicine for rheumatism and neuralgia. Our investigations showed that these two plants contain mainly lycoctonine-type alkaloids.2-7) In a continuing search for new active alkaloids two new C 19 -diterpenoid alkaloids, jiufengdine (1) and jiufengtine (4), were isolated from the roots of D. potaninii var. jiufengshanense. We report here the isolation and structures of these new alkaloids.
Results and DiscussionJiufengdine (1) [d H 6.67, 6.67, 7.29, each 1H, m, 7.79 (1H, dd, Jϭ8.2, 1.6 Hz); d C see Table 1] Since a proton-triplet at d 4.79 (Jϭ5.0 Hz) was attributable to 14b-H, this is true in many C 19 -diterpenoid alkaloids bearing an ester group at C-14, 8,9) especially in the presence of long-range 1 H-13 C correlations HMBC of the 14-H with the carbonyl carbon (d 176.8) in the isopentanoate moiety, indicating the presence of the 14-isopentanoyl group. Similarly, the remaining anthranoyl group could be located at C-18 due to the 1 H-
13C long-range correlations (HMBC) between H 2 -18 (d H 4.10, 4.15) and the anthranoyl carbonyl carbon (d C 167.7). Compared with elanine (2), 10) the 1 H-NMR spectrum of jiufengdine (1) gave an additional NH 2 group. Except for those differences, the 13 C-NMR data (Table 1) of (1) and elanine (2) are very similar, thus leading to the structure of jiufengdine as 1. Meanwhile, the stereochemistry of C-2Ј in 1 could be deduced temporarily as S only based on comparison of the 13 C-NMR data with glaucedine (3).
11)Assignments of 1 H-and 13 C-NMR data were made by careful analysis of the spectra, including 1 H-1 H COSY, HMQC and HMBC, in meanwhile, also leading to suggestion of revision of the assignments (Table 1) for C-5, C-9, C-10, and C-13 of the 13 C-NMR spectrum of elanine (2). Jiufengtine (4) ). The NMR spectra of 4 revealed the presence of four methoxyls (d H 3.31, 3.34, 3.37, 3.42; d C 55.7, 56.2, 57.7, 58.0), and an anthranoyl [d H 6.64, 6.69, 7.29, 7.76 (each 1H); d C see Table 2] group. Compound 4 was considered to be a lycoctonine-type alkaloid by comparison of the NMR properities with many known C 19 -diterpenoid alkaloids.8,9) The 1H-triplet signal at d 3.62 (Jϭ4.8 Hz) could be assigned to 14b-H based on comparison with many alkaloids bearing a methoxyl at C-14.8,9) The NMR spectra of compound 4 lacked an N-ethyl group when compared with anthranoyl-lycoctonine (5).12) Except for this point, the 1 H-NMR spectra of the two alkaloids are very similar. Comparison of the 13 C-NMR data of 4 and 5 led to the structure of jiufengtine as 4, an N-deethyl derivative of anthranoyl-lycoctonine (5) and revision of the assignments (Table 2) for C-5, C-9, C-10, C-13 of the 13 C-NMR spectrum of 4. In addition, as compared with 5, the 13 C-NMR spectrum of 4 clearly showed changes in the chemical shifts of C-1, C-2, C-3, C-5, C-7, C-10, C-17, and C-19 caused by N-deethylation, as in N-deethyldelphatine...