Studies of Australian Soft Corals. XXXVIII. Structure Determination of Several Diterpenes Derived From a Cespitularia Species (Coelenterata, Octocorallia, Xeniidae)

1986 ◽  
Vol 39 (5) ◽  
pp. 803 ◽  
Author(s):  
BF Bowden ◽  
JC Coll ◽  
JM Gulbis ◽  
MF Mackay ◽  
RH Willis

The structure elucidation of three new diterpenes , isolated from a soft coral Cespitularia species, is reported. Two of the metabolites (3), (7E,11E,1R*,3aS*,4S*,12aR*)-11-iso-propyl-1,4,8-trimethyl- 1,2,3,3a,4,5,6,9,10,12a-decahydrocyclopentacycloundecene-1,4-diol, and (4), (4E,7E,11E)-11-isopropyl-1,4,8-trimethyl-1,2,3,3a,6,9,10,12a-octahydrocyclopentacyclo-undecen-1-ol, are shown to possess a further cyclized cembrane skeleton, the structure of (3) being determined by a single-crystal X-ray determination while that of (4) was deduced from spectral comparison with (3). The structure of the remaining diterpene (5) (4,5-deoxyneodolabelline) was deduced from 1H and 13C n.m.r . spectroscopic studies and shown to be closely related to the recently reported clavularian metabolite neodolabelline (8). An authentic sample of neodolabelline (8) was chemically transformed into (5) by the action of a zinc-copper couple establishing the absolute structure of (5).

1986 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 103 ◽  
Author(s):  
BF Bowden ◽  
JC Coll ◽  
LM Engelhardt ◽  
DM Tapiolas ◽  
AH White

The soft coral Lemnalia cervicornis May 1898 has afforded 13 novel sesquiterpenoid metabolites. The majority were derivatives of calamenen-7-ol and the structures were deduced by 1H and 13C n.m.r . spectroscopy. Absolute stereochemistry of compounds (3)-(13) was determined by chemical correlation with 7-hydroxycalamenen-3-one (3) for which an X-ray structure determination of its 7-p-bromobenzoyl derivative is reported. Two minor metabolites (15) and (16) were not aromatic, but were structurally related to the algal metabolite zonarene (21) for which absolute stereochemistry was available.


1986 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 123 ◽  
Author(s):  
BF Bowden ◽  
JC Coll ◽  
LM Engelhardt ◽  
GV Meehan ◽  
GG Pegg ◽  
...  

Two isomeric 7,8-epoxycembra-3,11,15-trien-16,2-olides have been isolated from different species of the soft coral genus Efflatounaria. The structure of each was deduced spectroscopically , and the relative stereochemistry of one was determined by X-ray crystallography. The absolute stereochemistry of each cembranolide was obtained by chemical correlation with known compounds.


1987 ◽  
Vol 40 (8) ◽  
pp. 1483 ◽  
Author(s):  
BF Bowden ◽  
JC Coll ◽  
LM Engelhardt ◽  
A Heaton ◽  
AH White

.A novel sesquiterpene (1 Z,2R*,4R*,7S*,11S*)-3,3,7,11-tetramethyltricyclo[6.3.0.02,4]undec-1(8)-en-4-ol (3) was isolated from the soft coral Xenia novae-britanniae. Its structure was tentatively deduced by n.m.r. spectroscopy, and the structure with relative stereochemistry was confirmed by single-crystal X-ray crystallography. Investigation of a Xenia species afforded the known metabolite waixenicin -A previously isolated from Anthelia edmondsoni .


1983 ◽  
Vol 36 (11) ◽  
pp. 2279 ◽  
Author(s):  
BF Bowden ◽  
JC Coll ◽  
VA Patrick ◽  
DM Tapiolas

Three new diterpenes have been isolated from soft corals of the genus Efflatounaria (Coelenterata, Octocorallia, Alcyonacea, Xeniidae). The structure of the first compound (4) was elucidated on the basis of high-field 1H n.m.r. spectroscopy while that of the second metabolite (5) was determined by single-crystal X-ray analysis. The third diterpene (6) was structurally related to (5), and its structure was confirmed by chemical transformation. All three diterpenes can be derived from xenicin-type precursors, by cleavage and recyclization.


1984 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 545 ◽  
Author(s):  
BF Bowden ◽  
JC Coll ◽  
MSL de Costa ◽  
MF Mackay ◽  
M Mahendran ◽  
...  

A specimen of Lobophytum cristigalli collected in Sri Lanka afforded two cembranolide diterpenes (7E,11E,1R,2S,3R,4R,14S)-14-acetoxy-3,4-epoxycembra-7,11,15-trien-17,2-olide (6)* and the corresponding alcohol (7). Their structures were deduced spectroscopically and detailed stereochemistry of (6) was determined by X-ray crystallography.


1982 ◽  
Vol 35 (5) ◽  
pp. 997 ◽  
Author(s):  
BF Bowden ◽  
JC Coll ◽  
E Ditzel ◽  
SJ Mitchell ◽  
WT Robinson

The isolation of '9-deacetoxyxenicin' [systematic name: (1R*,4aS*,7E,11aS*,1'R*,2'R*)-1-acetoxy-4-(1',2'-diacetoxy-4'-methylpent-3'-enyl)-7-methy1-11-methylene-1,4a,5,6,9,10,11,11a-octahydrocyclonona[c]pyran] (2) from Xenia crassa and a further cyclized diterpene (6) from Xenia viridis are described. The structure of (2) was derived from n.m.r. spectroscopic comparison with xenicin (1), whilst the structure of (6) was determined by a single-crystal X-ray analysis when spectroscopy failed to afford an unambiguous structure.


2012 ◽  
Vol 67 (10) ◽  
pp. 1115-1122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liliana Dobrzańska ◽  
Christoph E. Strasser ◽  
Hubert Schmidbaur ◽  
Helgard G. Raubenheimer

5-Lithiated 4,4-dimethyl-2-(2-thienyl)oxazoline reacted by halide and tetrahydrothiophene (THT) substitution with [AuCl(THT)] to form a cyclic trinuclear compound (1) in satisfactory yield. Spectroscopic studies and single-crystal X-ray analyses clarified the bonding within the ring system. The structure determination of two THF solvates revealed differences in the supramolecular assembly of the constituting molecules.


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