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Maculalactone M from the marine cyanobacterium Kyrtuthrix maculans
Ho-Fai Wong1, Gray A Williams, Geoffrey D Brown
1Department of Chemistry, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong.
Phytochemistry
|May 29, 2002
Abstract:
Maculalactone M, a seco-dibenzyldiphenyl-4,5,6,7-tetrahydrobenzofuranone, was isolated from the epilithic encrusting cyanobacterium Kyrtuthrix maculans. A possible biogenetic route to this compound is proposed involving cleavage of an allylic hydroperoxide.