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New polyoxygenated briarane diterpenoids, briaexcavatolides O-R, from the gorgonian Briareum excavatum
1Department of Marine Resources, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung 804, Taiwan, Republic of China.
Abstract:
Four new polyoxygenated briarane-type diterpenoids, briaexcavatolides O-R (1-4), have been isolated from a gorgonian octocoral Briareum excavatum. Their structures were determined using spectroscopic and chemical methods. Metabolites 1-3 were found to contain oxygenated substituents at C-2, C-3, and C-4, and the relative configurations were assigned as 2R*,3R*,4R* at these three positions. Briaranes containing this type of stereochemistry are reported for the first time. The structures of metabolites 1 and 2 were further confirmed by single-crystal X-ray analyses. Compound 2 has been shown to exhibit significant cytotoxicity toward P-388 and HT-29 cancer cells.
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