Alkaloids from Cassytha filiformis

Abstract Cathafiline and cathaformine, two novel aporphinoid alkaloids possessing a N -(methoxycarbonyl) group, along with six known alkaloids, actinodaphnine, cassythine, isoboldine, cassameridine, cassamedine and lysicamine, have been isolated and characterized from Cassytha filiformis . The structures of these compounds were elucidated by spectroscopic analyses and from chemical evidence. © 1997 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved