Abstract
The aconitine-type alkaloids talatisamine (1), 8,14-diacetyltalatisamine (11), and compound 3, the lycoctonine-type alkaloid deltaline (5), and the 7,17-seco C19-diterpenoid alkaloids 7 and 9 were treated with HBr–glacial acetic acid to give useful O-demethylated derivatives 2, 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10 respectively in good to high yields (49–90%).
Acknowledgements
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 30472075) and the Excellent Ph.D. Dissertation Foundation of China (No. 200367).