Constituents of West African medicinal plants. VII: Alkaloids of Tiliacora dinklagei.

Abstract

Tiliacore dinklagei (Menispermaceae), a woody climber of the rain forests of West Africa, has been used as a native medicinal and an article of commerce. Chromatography of an ethanolic extract of the powdered roots afforded the three alkaloids tiliacorinine, funiferine and nortiliacorinine A; the new alkaloid, tiliageine and the incompletely characterized alkaloid, TD-2.