Ten 12-membered macrocyclic pyrrolizidine alkaloids, all of them esters of the necines, retronecine or otonecine, have been isolated from Senecio anonymus. The separation, carried out by droplet counter-current chromatography, afforded senecionine [1], integerrimine [2], retrorsine [3], senkirkine [5], neosenkirkine [6], otosenine [10], hydroxysenkirkine [7], and a new alkaloid given the trivial name anonamine [9]. Traces of usaramine [4] and another new alkaloid, hydroxyneosenkirkine [8], were detected by 1H nmr. In addition, the previously unreported 3a beta-hydroxy-4-ethoxy-2,6-perhydroindoledione [11] was isolated. X-ray structures were obtained for neosenkirkine [6], hydroxysenkirkine [7], anonamine [9], and [11]. 1H-13C heteronuclear shift correlated nmr (HETCOR) provided unambiguous chemical shift assignments for 13C-nmr data. Antitumor activity was assayed using the A204-rhabdomyosarcoma cell line in soft agarose.
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