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Abstract

Additional alkaloids (+)-roemerine (3b), (+)-corytuberine (3d), (-)-N-methylmecambridinium and alkaloid MC 2 (the last two as iodides) were isolated as minor alkaloidal components from Meconopsis cambrica (L.) VIG. (Papaveraceae) besides of the dominant known alkaloids (-)-mecambrine (1), (-)-mecambridine (2), (-)-flavinantine (4) and (+)-magnoflorine (5), and a small amount of (+)-mecambroline (3a). Minute quantities of protopine, allocryptopine, roemeroline, papaverrubine D and C, berberine, coptisine, corysamine and palmatine were identified by thin layer chromatography (TLC). From M. robusta HOOK. f. et THOMS., protopine, (-)-amurensinine (6) and two incompletely characterized alkaloids MRO 1 and MRO 2 were isolated, and allocryptopine, cryptopine, rhoeadine, 6-methoxy-2-methyl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-β-carboline, alkaloid MR 1, coptisine, corysamine, magnoflorine, corytuberine and N-methylamurensininium salt were detected on TLC.

Keywords: Meconopsis cambrica; Meconopsis robusta; Papaveraceae; Minor alkaloids.