Molecules 2011, 16, 9714-9720; doi:10.3390/molecules16119714 OPEN ACCESS molecules ISSN 1420-3049 www.mdpi.com/journal/molecules Article Trypanocidal Activity of Oxoaporphine and Pyrimidine-β- Carboline Alkaloids from the Branches of Annona foetida Mart. (Annonaceae) Emmanoel Vilaça Costa 1, Maria Lúcia Belém Pinheiro 2,*, Afonso Duarte Leão de Souza 2, Andersson Barison 3, Francinete Ramos Campos 4, Rodrigo Hinojosa Valdez 5, Tânia Ueda-Nakamura 5, Benedito Prado Dias Filho 5 and Celso Vataru Nakamura 5 1 LABORGANICS, Department of Chemistry, Federal University of Sergipe, 49100-000, São Cristóvão, SE, Brazil; E-Mail:
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[email protected]; Tel./Fax: +55-92-3305-4031. Received: 13 October 2011; in revised form: 17 November 2011 / Accepted: 17 November 2011 / Published: 23 November 2011 Abstract: Phytochemical investigation of the branches of Annona foetida Mart. led to isolation from the CH2Cl2 extract of four alkaloids: Atherospermidine (1), described for the first time in this species, liriodenine (2), O-methylmoschatoline (3), and annomontine (4).