Chapter 4 Papaveraceae Alkaloids. II

Abstract

Publisher Summary In the organization of this chapter, it adds the isoquinoline alkaloids to the group of benzylisoquinoline alkaloids and renames the group of tetrahydroprotoberberine and protoberberine alkaloids into a group of alkaloids of the berbine type because the Papaveraceae plants were also found to contain pseudoprotoberberine bases. The narceineimide alkaloids with two nitrogens were classified with the narceine alkaloids, and the group of spirobenzylisoquinoline alkaloids was subdivided into (a) ochotensimine, (b) hypecorine and canadaline and, (c) peshawarine types of alkaloids. It was deemed necessary to add the group of dimeric alkaloids and the group of those alkaloids which occur in the Papaveraceae plants, but are not derived from isoquinoline or benzylisoquinoline. New information on the alkaloids in the individual Papaveraceae plants contributes to the chemotaxonomic classification of the individual plant species to the correct tribes and genera. For this reason, the section on chemotaxonomy, ecology, and callus tissues has been added.