Occurrence and Significance of Decahydroquinolines from Dendrobatid Poison Frogs and a Myrmicine Ant: Use of 1H and 13C NMR in Their Conformational Analysis

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Abstract

Structures for 2,5-disubstituted decahydroquinolines (DHQs) are reported for the two diastereomeric pairs cis-275B (14) and cis-275B‘ (15) and 5-epi-trans-269AB (18) and trans-269AB (19), all isolated from skin extracts of dendrobatid frogs, and for 5-epi-cis-275B‘ (16) and 5-epi-trans-275B (17) found in the extracts of virgin queens of a myrmicine ant [Solenopsis (Diplorhoptrum) azteca]. Detection of such DHQs in an ant, their first reported occurrence, strengthens a dietary hypothesis for the origin of the approximately 30 DHQs that have been detected in extracts of frog skin. NMR data on the two conformers of cis-decahydroquinoline permit assignment of ring conformations and stereochemistry to cis-DHQs of the “N-endo” type or the “N-exo” type. These conformations are also assigned on whether H-8a is equatorial or axial as determined with E-COSY or 1D-HOHAHA spectra.

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