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Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry-Based Targeted Metabolomics of Hard Coral Samples
Published on: October 13, 2023
Polyhydroxylated steroids from the soft coral Sinularia dissecta
Pengfei Jin1, Zhiwei Deng, Yuehu Pei
1State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs, Peking University, Beijing 100083, China.
Abstract:
A repeated silica gel column chromatography followed by HPLC purification on the methanol extract of marine soft coral Sinularia dissecta, resulted in the isolation of fifteen polyhydroxylated steroids (1-15), involving six new C-18 functionalized steroids, 3beta-acetoxy-1alpha,11alpha-dihydroxygorgost-5-en-18-oic acid (1), gorgost-5-en-1alpha,3beta,11alpha,18-tetrol (2), 18-acetoxy-1alpha,3beta,11alpha-trihydroxygorgost-5-ene (3), 24(S)-3beta-acetoxy-1alpha, 11alpha-dihydroxyergost-5-en-18-oic acid (4), 24(S)-ergost-5-en-1alpha,3beta,11alpha,18-tetrol (5), and dissectolide (6). The structures of the new compounds were determined on the basis of extensive spectroscopic data (IR, MS, (1)H and (13)C NMR, HMQC, HMBC, and NOESY) analysis. Compound 6 was found as an unusual sterol bearing a lactone functionality.
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