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Secondary Plant Substances

Some Tyrosine- and Phenylalanine-Derived Alkaloids

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Progress in Botany/Fortschritte der Botanik

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Phenylalanine and tyrosine give rise to many secondary plant products. Phenylalanine is preferably converted to cinnamic acid, the parent substance of the large group of nonnitrogenous phenylpropanoids (Progr. Bot. 40, 126 ff.; 41, 93ff.; SCHÜTTE, 1981). Tyrosine and dopa lead preferably to the corresponding alkaloids. The usual pathway to the alkaloids starts with dopamine (I), the decarboxylation product of dopa, which can give the simple phenethylamines like mescaline (II) (PAUL, 1973; SMITH, 1977; BASMADJIAN et al., 1978) or which can react according to a Mannich reaction with carbonyl compounds to give tetrahydroisoquinolines (cf. LIEBISCH, 1969). Most important is the reaction of dopamine derivatives with phenylpyruvic acid derivatives yielding benzyltetrahydroisoquinolines and the different derived compounds. The principles of this pathway were established in the 1960’s (cf. SCHÜTTE, 1969; Herbert, 1979; FODOR, 1980). Here some recent results in this field should be discussed.

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Schütte, HR. (1981). Secondary Plant Substances. In: Ellenberg, H., Esser, K., Kubitzki, K., Schnepf, E., Ziegler, H. (eds) Progress in Botany/Fortschritte der Botanik. Progress in Botany/Fortschritte der Botanik, vol 43. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-68297-1_6

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