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1. The plantHaplophyllum acutifolium has yielded eudesmine, acetamide, skimmianine, and a new base with the composition C16H19NO, mp 122–123°C, which has been called acutine.
2. It has been shown that acutine has the structure of 2-(hept-4-enyl)-1,4-dihydroquinolin-4-one.
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Institute of the Chemistry of Plant Substances, Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 2, pp. 206–210, March–April, 1973.
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Razzakova, D.M., Bessonova, I.A. & Yunusov, S.Y. Alkaloids of Haplophyllum acutifolium. Chem Nat Compd 9, 199–202 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00563344
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