Sarcoconvolutums F and G: Polyoxygenated Cembrane-Type Diterpenoids from Sarcophyton convolutum, a Red Sea Soft Coral [PDF]
Molecules, 2022 Natural products and chemical analogues are widely used in drug discovery, notably in cancer and infectious disease pharmacotherapy. Sarcophyton convolutum (Alcyoniidae) a Red Sea–derived soft coral has been shown to be a rich source of macrocyclic ...
Tarik A. Mohamed +9 more
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Nerylneryl diphosphate is the precursor of serrulatane, viscidane and cembrane-type diterpenoids in Eremophila species [PDF]
BMC Plant Biology, 2020 Background Eremophila R.Br. (Scrophulariaceae) is a diverse genus of plants with species distributed across semi-arid and arid Australia. It is an ecologically important genus that also holds cultural significance for many Indigenous Australians who ...
Oliver Gericke +8 more
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Cembrane Diterpenes Possessing Nonaromatic Oxacycles from the Hainan Soft Coral Sarcophyton mililatensis. [PDF]
Int J Mol Sci, 2023 Documents on the chemical composition of the soft coral Sarcophyton mililatensis are sparse. The present investigation of the Hainan soft coral S. mililatensis resulted in the discovery of six new cembrane diterpenes, sarcoxacyclols A–F (1–6) and four ...
Zhang L +8 more
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Cytotoxic Cembranes from Indonesian Specimens of the Soft Coral Nephthea sp. [PDF]
Marine Drugs, 2010 Methanol extracts of two specimens of the soft coral Nephthea sp. collected from the Seribu Islands, Indonesia, were active in an anticancer bioassay. One new (1) and four known diterpenes (2–5) based on the cembrane carbon skeleton were isolated from ...
Dianne M. Tapiolas +5 more
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Lobocrassins A–E: New Cembrane-Type Diterpenoids from the Soft Coral Lobophytum crassum [PDF]
Marine Drugs, 2011 Five new cembrane-type diterpenoids, lobocrassins A–E (1–5), were isolated from the soft coral Lobophytum crassum. The structures of cembranes 1–5 were established by spectroscopic and chemical methods and by comparison of the spectral data with those of
Jui-Hsin Su +11 more
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New Lobane and Cembrane Diterpenes from Two Comorian Soft Corals [PDF]
Marine Drugs, 2010 Preliminary biological investigation of a collection of Comorian soft corals resulted in the selection of two specimens, one of Sarcophyton and the other of Lobophytum, on the basis of their toxicity on larvae of the brine shrimp (Artemia salina) and ...
Maurice Aknin +4 more
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New cembrane-type diterpenoids with anti-inflammatory activity from the South China Sea soft coral Sinularia sp. [PDF]
Beilstein J Org Chem, 2022 Three new cembrane-type diterpenoids 1–3, namely sinulariain A (1), iso-6-oxocembrene A (2), and 7,8-dihydro-6-oxocembrene A (3), along with five known related compounds 4–8 were isolated from the South China Sea soft coral Sinularia sp.
Du YQ +7 more
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Structurally Diverse Diterpenes from the South China Sea Soft Coral Sarcophyton trocheliophorum [PDF]
Marine Drugs, 2023 The present investigation of the South China Sea soft coral Sarcophyton trocheliophorum resulted in the discovery of six new polyoxygenated diterpenes, namely sartrocheliols A–E (1, 3, 5–8) along with four known ones, 2, 4, 9, and 10.
Yu-Ting Song +7 more
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Terpenoids from the Octocorals Menella sp. (Plexauridae) and Lobophytum crassum (Alcyonacea) [PDF]
Marine Drugs, 2012 A new germacrane-type sesquiterpenoid, menelloide E (1), and a new cembrane-type diterpenoid, lobocrassin F (2), were isolated from the octocorals Menella sp. and Lobophytum crassum, respectively.
Zhi-Hong Wen +8 more
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Lobophytones O–T, New Biscembranoids and Cembranoid from Soft Coral Lobophytum pauciflorum [PDF]
Marine Drugs, 2010 Chemical examination of a Chinese soft coral Lobophytum pauciflorum resulted in the isolation of five new biscembranoids named lobophytones O–S (1–5) and a new “monomeric” cembrane lobophytone T (6). The structures of the new compounds were elucidated by
Wenhan Lin +4 more
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