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The Simple Plant Isoquinolines (incomplete) by Alexander T. Shulgin, Wendy E. Perry

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There was no mention made of a subclassof phenethylamines which are intimately associated with the isoquinolines. The chemical term "seco" is a clever device for maintaining a structural relationship between two chemicals after having, magically,removed a structural bond. Illustrated here is an aporphine with the electrons from that l,2-bond having been rearranged into the middle ring. It would probably be chemically classified as an aminoethyl-substituted phenanthrene, rather than a phenethylamine which had been fused (2,3a) with a naphthalene, but in this book it will be listed in the section describing the parent I-benzyltetrahydroisoquinoline, modified with an ortho attack if appropriate, followedby a l,2-seco bond removal.

It can also be seen as a similar oxidative attack from an a-hydroxy group (a commonly encountered benzyl substituent) on the 8-hydrogen position. The first of these two mechanisms (illustrated above) is used in this collection. THE SECOISOQUINOLINES The prefix "seco" is an unusual term occasionally encountered in the literature of natural products. Just as the term "or tho-attack" indicates the generation of a new ring, the term "seco" indicates the destruction of a ring. A secoisoquinoline is formed from a 1-substituted tetrahydroisoquinoline by the loss of the 1,2-bond.

When this occurs, the compound is listed as a footnote under the parent structure. More difficult to generalize, are the isoquinolines with new rings resulting from biosynthetic attacks from here to there that are excluded from this study. In a broad, inclusive statement the line has again been drawn to exclude everything that has not been included above. Originally it was intended to list every plant in which these natural isoquinolines are found, documented with a literature reference. The project became unmanageable in that some of the more common alkaloids have been found in literally hundreds of plants.

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