1984 Volume 32 Issue 9 Pages 3584-3587
A new dipeptide, lyciumamide (1), was isolated from the Chinese crude drug"Ti-ku-'pi, "root bark of Lycium chinense MILL. (Solanaceae), and was shown by spectroscopy, chemical degradation, and synthesis to be N-benzoyl-L-phenylalanyl-L-phenylalaninol O-acetate (1).