Three new rhazinilam-derived alkaloids, kopsiyunnanines C1, C2, and C3, and a new quebrachamine-type alkaloid, kopsiyunnanine D, which possess an unusual methoxymethyl or ethoxymethyl function, were isolated from the aerial parts of Yunnan Kopsia arborea. This is the first report of the presence of
Ten monomeric indole alkaloids have been identified from the roots of KOPSIA OFFICINALIS. Four of them are known: (-)-kopsinine 1, (+)-5,22-dioxokopsane 2, (-)-tetrahydroalstonine 4, and (-)-quebrachamine 3; and six are new: (-)-isoeburnamine 5 (enantiomer of the known alkaloid (+)-isoeburnamine),