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Chemical compound
Lespedamine is an indole alkaloid and substituted tryptamine present in the plant Lespedeza bicolor.[1][2] The alkaloid bears a close structural resemblance to the psychedelic alkaloid dimethyltryptamine and was speculated to have psychoactivity by Alexander Shulgin. No reports on lespedamine's biological activity have been published.
^Somei M, Yamada F, Kurauchi T, et al. (January 2001). "The chemistry of indoles. CIII. Simple syntheses of serotonin, N-methylserotonin, bufotenine, 5-methoxy-N-methyltryptamine, bufobutanoic acid, N-(indol-3-yl)methyl-5-methoxy-N-methyltryptamine, and lespedamine based on 1-hydroxyindole chemistry". Chem. Pharm. Bull. 49 (1): 87–96. doi:10.1248/cpb.49.87. hdl:2297/43978. PMID 11201232.
^Morimoto, Hiroshi; Oshio, Haruji (22 February 1965). "Über Alkaloide, V Inhaltsstoffe vonLespedeza bicolor var.japonica, I. über Lespedamin, ein neues Alkaloid". Justus Liebigs Annalen der Chemie. 682 (1): 212–218. doi:10.1002/jlac.19656820121.
Lespedamine is an indole alkaloid and substituted tryptamine present in the plant Lespedeza bicolor. The alkaloid bears a close structural resemblance...
fire-adapted habitat types. Lespedeza bicolor var. japonica contains lespedamine which is structurally related to DMT and dihydrolespedezol derivatives...
bicolor leaves and roots contain l-methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine (lespedamine), as well as related Nω,Nω-dimethyltryptamines and their oxides, as well...
1-methoxyindole moiety was unknown in the marine world. 1-Methoxyindoles, such as lespedamine, were previously only known to occur in plants of the bean and mustard...