Biodiversity in the alkaloids of Turkish Papaver species

There are about 35 Papaver species growing in Turkey, which are grouped into eight sections. namely Argemonidium, Carinata, Glauca, Miltantha, Oxytona, Papaver, Pilosa, and Rhoeadium

Isolation of triniifoline, miltanthaline and some medicinally important alkaloids from Papaver triniifolium

New alkaloids, (+)-triniifoline, (+)-O-ethyltriniifoline (rhoeadine type), and (+)-miltanthaline (benzylisoquinoline type) have been isolated from aerial parts of Papaver triniifolium Boiss. (Papaveraceae). The major alkaloids were medicinally important (-)-alpha-narcotine and papaverine together with (-)-mecambrine in the species whereas narceine and (-)-N-methylcrotonosine were minor alkaloids. The known (-)-alpha-narcotine, narceine and (-)-N-methylcrotonosine have been isolated for the first time from P. triniifolium