• N&PD Moderators: Skorpio | thegreenhand

Somniferine alkaloid (questions) from unique plant with cocaine and nightshade family

Nagelfar

Bluelight Crew
Joined
Nov 23, 2007
Messages
2,527
I've read somniferine is an exclusive alkaloid to the Ashwagandha plant (poison gooseberry, winter cherry: taxonomic name = Withania somnifera) in the Solanaceae family, along with ashwagandhine & ashwaganidhine. Anyone have any structure information on those (three bolded) alkaloid drug-chemical structures in question and any information on activity? It also contains various steroidal lactones; withanolides (specifically withaferin A); tropine & cuscohygrine that are active. But I am interested in the ones unprecedented to any other known plant (yet to be isolated, found, extracted or identified anywhere else)
 
Somniferine

imgsrv.fcgi


It is not actually a tropanes (coca or nightshade related alkaloid.. but Opium Papaverum Somniferum alkaloid aka opiates.. Structurally a dimethyl morphine (aka Codeine) substituted with Oxymorphone (Oxymorphone is 3-desmethyl Oxycodone) so technically a Codeinyl-Oxymorphone. Very interesting since those are purely synthetic (I mean the 6-keto morphinans ). I wonder if it can be easily transformed into Oxycodone by couple of synthetic steps (would make cheap source of oxy). Not talking synthesis just the thought!!
(the other 2 structures have not been published afaik but should be related to Somniferine since they both coming from same alkaloids.. Asawagandine is probably 3 methyl Somniferine ie Dimethyl morphine substituted Oxycodone instead of Oxymorphone (Codeinyl-Oxycodone).. but who knows??

imgsrv.fcgi


EDIT: I mean converting it into codeine and oxycodone or codeine and oxymorphone
 
Last edited:
Just gonna mention that Withania somnifera effects arent in any way similar to opioids. Its really good for inducing sleep tho. Ive been using it regularly for years
 
Top