This article reports the structural elucidation of the Alangium alkaloid, tubulosine (1) on the basis of systematic 2D-NMR analyses (DEPT, COSY, TOCSY, NOESY, ROESY, HMQC and HMBC). The data obtained allowed the unambiguous assignment of all proton and carbon signals in 1 for the first time.
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