Helvetica Chimica Acta – Vol. 94 (2011)
353
and Fr. B1 and Fr. B2. Fr. B1 was further purified by a C18 RP column (60% aq. MeOH) to give alkaloid
1 (5 mg). Fr. B2 was further chromatographed through a SiO2 column (PE/AcOEt/Et2NH 15 :1:0.1),
followed by HPLC purifications to give 3 (MeOH/H2O 90 :10; 14.3 mg) and 5 (MeOH/H2O 70 :30;
4.4 mg).
Preparation of (ꢀ)-Elaeocarpine N-Oxide (2) from (ꢀ)-Elaeocarpine (4). (ꢀ)-Elaeocarpine (4;
14.8 mg) was dissolved in 8 ml of CHCl3, and then 123.7 mg m-CPBA (m-chloroperbenzoic acid) in 5 ml
of CHCl3 was added in dropwise. The mixture was stirred for 1 h at r.t. After workup, the crude alkaloid
was subjected to CC (SiO2; AcOEt/MeOH 5 :1 (0.1% (v/v) Et2NH)) to give compound 2 (5 mg).
(ꢀ)-3-Oxoisoelaeocarpine (¼(6aS,12aR,12bR)-1,2,6,6a,12a,12b-Hexahydro-11-methyl-5H-chrome-
no[2,3-g]indolizine-3,12-dione; 1). White amorphous powder. UV (MeOH): 217 (4.25), 258 (3.90),
326 (3.51). IR (KBr): 2968, 2922, 2881, 1683, 1599, 1472, 1422, 793. 1H- and 13C-NMR: see the Table. ESI-
MS: 272 ([M þ H]þ). HR-ESI-MS (pos.): 272.1286 ([M þ H]þ, C16H18NOþ3 ; calc. 272.1281).
(ꢀ)-Elaeocarpine N-Oxide (¼(6aR,12aR,12bR)-1,2,3,5,6,6a,12a,12b-Octahydro-11-methyl-12H-
chromeno[2,3-g]indolizin-12-one 4-Oxide; 2). White amorphous powder. UV (MeOH): 217 (4.01),
1
254 (3.66), 322 (3.26). IR (KBr): 3442, 2972, 2820, 1688, 1602, 1470, 792. H- and 13C-NMR: see the
Table. ESI-MS: 274 ([M þ H]þ). HR-ESI-MS (pos.): 274.1435 ([M þ H]þ, C16H20NOþ3 ; calc. 274.1438).
This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China
(30801429), the Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation (Y2080602), and Science Foundation of
Chinese University (2009QNA7028).
REFERENCES
[1] An Editorial Committee of Chinese Academy of Sciences, in ꢂFlora of Chinaꢃ (ꢂZhongguo Zhiwu
Zhiꢃ), Science Press, Beijing, 1989, Vol. 49(1), pp. 1 – 7.
[2] a) S. R. Johns, J. A. Lamberton, A. A. Sioumis, J. A. Wunderlich, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun.
1968, 290; b) S. R. Johns, J. A. Lamberton, A. A. Sioumis, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun. 1968,
1324; c) S. R. Johns, J. A. Lamberton, A. A. Sioumis, H. Suares, R. I. Willing, J. Chem. Soc., Chem.
Commun. 1970, 804; d) S. R. Johns, J. A. Lamberton, A. A. Sioumis, R. I. Willing, Aust. J. Chem.
1969, 22, 775; e) S. R. Johns, J. A. Lamberton, A. A. Sioumis, Aust. J. Chem. 1969, 22, 793; f) S. R.
Johns, J. A. Lamberton, A. A. Sioumis, Aust. J. Chem. 1969, 22, 801; g) S. R. Johns, J. A. Lamberton,
A. A. Sioumis, H. Suares, R. I. Willing, Aust. J. Chem. 1971, 24, 1679; h) N. K. Hart, S. R. Johns, J. A.
Lamberton, Aust. J. Chem. 1972, 25, 817.
[3] D. Meng, S. Qiang, L. Lou, W. Zhao, Planta Med. 2008, 74, 1741.
[4] S. Dasgupta, S. C. Dutta, A. B. Ray, Ind. J. Chem., Sect. B 1977, 15, 197.
[5] A. Ito, H.-B. Chai, D. Lee, L. B. S. Kardono, S. Riswan, N. R. Farnsworth, G. A. Cordell, J. M.
Pezzuto, A. D. Kinghorn, Phytochemistry 2002, 61, 171.
[6] a) A. B. Ray, L. Chand, V. B. Pandey, Phytochemistry 1979, 18, 700; b) A. R. Carroll, G. Arumugan,
R. J. Quinn, J. Redburn, G. Guymer, P. Grimshaw, J. Org. Chem. 2005, 70, 1889; c) P. L. Katavic,
D. A. Venables, P. I. Forster, G. Guymer, A. R. Carroll, J. Nat. Prod. 2006, 69, 1295; d) P. L. Katavic,
D. A. Venables, T. Rali, A. R. Carroll, J. Nat. Prod. 2007, 70, 866; e) P. L. Katavic, D. A. Venables, T.
Rali, A. R. Carroll, J. Nat. Prod. 2007, 70, 872.
[7] R. K. Singh, G. Nath, Phytother. Res. 1999, 13, 448.
[8] R. K. Singh, S. B. Acharya, S. K. Bhattacharya, Phytother. Res. 2000, 14, 36.
[9] L.-S. Gan, Y.-L. Zheng, J.-X. Mo, X. Liu, X.-H. Li, C.-X. Zhou, J. Nat. Prod. 2009, 72, 1497.
[10] J. Bostrçm, J. R. Greenwood, J. Gottfries, J. Mol. Graph. Mod. 2003, 21, 449.
[11] Gaussian 09, Revision A.1, M. J. Frisch, G. W. Trucks, H. B. Schlegel, G. E. Scuseria, M. A. Robb,
J. R. Cheeseman, G. Scalmani, V. Barone, B. Mennucci, G. A. Petersson, H. Nakatsuji, M. Caricato,
X. Li, H. P. Hratchian, A. F. Izmaylov, J. Bloino, G. Zheng, J. L. Sonnenberg, M. Hada, M. Ehara, K.
Toyota, R. Fukuda, J. Hasegawa, M. Ishida, T. Nakajima, Y. Honda, O. Kitao, H. Nakai, T. Vreven,
J. A. Montgomery Jr., J. E. Peralta, F. Ogliaro, M. Bearpark, J. J. Heyd, E. Brothers, K. N. Kudin,
V. N. Staroverov, R. Kobayashi, J. Normand, K. Raghavachari, A. Rendell, J. C. Burant, S. S.
Iyengar, J. Tomasi, M. Cossi, N. Rega, J. M. Millam, M. Klene, J. E. Knox, J. B. Cross, V. Bakken, C.