Alkaloidal Constituents of the Root of Aeonitum pseudogeniculatum

From the root of Aconitum pseudogeniculatum W. T. Wang, collected from the west of Sichuan province, six diterpenoid alkaloids were isolated and identified as denudatine ( Ⅰ ), chasmanine ( Ⅱ ), talatisamine (Ⅲ), yunaconitine (Ⅳ), crassicauline Ⅰ (Ⅴ) and vilmorrinianine C (Ⅵ). Yunaconitine, the major alkaloid of the plant, and its chemically transformed products pseudaconine and tetraacetylpseudaconine, showed antiinflammatory activities.