Nitrarine, isonitrarine, schoberidine, isoschoberidine, nitramidine, nitrar
oxine, nitraraine, schoberine, dehydroschoberine, tetramethylenetetrahydro-
beta -carboline, dl-vasicinone, deoxypaganine, deoxyvasicinone, dihydronitr
araine, nitraramine. nitraramine N-oxide, tetramethylenetetrahydro-beta -ca
rboline N-oxide, tryptamine, and a neu alkaloid N-methylnitrarine were isol
ated from the aerial parr of Nitraria schoberi L. Spectral data and chemica
l transformations were used to establish the structure of the last, which w
as found in nature for the first time.