1986 Volume 34 Issue 10 Pages 4050-4055
The structures of "acid B" and its monoethyl ester, which are stepwise oxidation products of lycoramine (2), an Amaryllidaceae alkaloid, and the structure of a nitro derivative of acid B, an oxidation product of oxolycoramine (5) with nitric acid, were established as 6, 10 and 12, respectively, on the basis of spectral and chemical evidence.