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Biosynthesis of meteloidine
Leete, Edward
, p. 1713 - 1716 (1972)
Tropine-3β-3H, N-methyl-14C 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 3H/14C ratio as in the administered tropine. Degradation of the meteloidine established that all its tritium was located at C-3 and all the 14C was on the N-methyl group, indicating that tropine is a direct precursor of teloidine.
