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Minor Sesquiterpenes with New Carbon Skeletons from the Brown Alga Dictyopteris divaricata

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posted on 2006-09-22, 00:00 authored by Fuhang Song, Xiuli Xu, Shuai Li, Sujuan Wang, Jielu Zhao, Yongchun Yang, Xiao Fan, Jiangong Shi, Lan He
Five minor sesquiterpenes (15) with two novel carbon skeletons, together with a minor new oplopane sesquiterpene (6), have been isolated from the brown alga Dictyopteris divaricata. By means of spectroscopic data including IR, HRMS, 1D and 2D NMR, and CD, their structures including absolute configurations were assigned as (+)-(1R,5S,6S,9R)-3-acetyl-1-hydroxy-6-isopropyl-9-methylbicyclo[4.3.0]non-3-ene (1), (+)-(1R,3S,4S,5R,6S,9R)-3-acetyl-1,4-dihydroxy-6-isopropyl-9-methylbicyclo[4.3.0]nonane (2), (+)-(1R,3R,4R,5R,6S,9R)-3-acetyl-1,4-dihydroxy-6-isopropyl-9-methylbicyclo[4.3.0]nonane (3), (+)-(1S,2R,6S,9R)-1-hydroxy-2-(1-hydroxyethyl)-6-isopropyl-9-methylbicyclo[4.3.0]non-4-en-3-one (4), (−)-(5S,6R,9S)-2-acetyl-5-hydroxy-6-isopropyl-9-methylbicyclo[4.3.0]non-1-en-3-one (5), and (−)-(1S,6S,9R)-4-acetyl-1-hydroxy-6-isopropyl-9-methylbicyclo[4.3.0]non-4-en-3-one (6). Biogenetically, the carbon skeletons of 16 may be derived from the co-occurring cadinane skeleton by different ring contraction rearrangements. Compounds 16 were inactive (IC50 > 10 μg/mL) against several human cancer cell lines.

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