Review
BOLETIN LATINOAMERICANO Y DEL CARIBE DE PLANTAS MEDICINALES Y AROMATICAS  (2012)

Alkaloids from the native flora of chile: A review Alcaloides de la flora nativa de chile: Una revision

Echeverría, J.; Niemeyer H.M.

Keywords: chile, flora, sesquiterpene, plant, prediction, dimer, species, drug, review, genus, endemicity, phenethylamine, taxon, tryptamine, controlled, vascular, alkaloid, native, isoindoloisoquinoline, pyrrolizidine, bisbenzylisoquinoline, study, pyrrolidine, piperidine, aporphine, isoindolobenzazepine, pyridyl, nonhuman, cyclopeptide, unclassified, isoquinoline, benzylisoquinoline, monoterpene, benzyltetrahydroisoquinoline, phenanthridine, Quinolizidine, acylpyrrolizidine, furoquinoline, indolenine, isoindolobenzazocine, nicotinoyl, nitrophenanthridine, norlobelanidine, paniculine, protoberberine, pseudobenzylisoquinoline, secobisbenzylisoquinoline, secopyrrolizidine, familia

Abstract

In spite of the high degree of endemism of the native vascular flora of Chile (ca. 52%) and predictions based on the frequency of occurrence of alkaloids in the world flora (they have been found in 40.4% of the families, 13.1% of the genera and 2.7% of the species), alkaloids have been isolated from only 12.5% of families, 3.9% of genera and 1.7% of species of the native flora of Chile. The slope of the linear correlation between these two sets of figures suggests that the alkaloid potential of the native Chilean flora has been exploited to the extent of only 29%. Currently known alkaloid-containing species from the native flora of Chile are listed in this review together with pertinent references. The distribution of alkaloids was compared between the native flora of Chile and the world flora; this led to the identification of several families with good potential as sources of alkaloids.

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Título de la Revista: BOLETIN LATINOAMERICANO Y DEL CARIBE DE PLANTAS MEDICINALES Y AROMATICAS
Volumen: 11
Número: 4
Editorial: UNIV SANTIAGO CHILE CASA
Fecha de publicación: 2012
Página de inicio: 291
Página final: 305
URL: http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84864214984&partnerID=q2rCbXpz