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Lidiya A Maslovskaya1,2, Andrei I Savchenko1, Victoria A Gordon3
1School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, 4072, Australia.
Chemistry (Weinheim an Der Bergstrasse, Germany)
|November 19, 2016
Abstract:
Investigation of the Australian rainforest plant Croton insularis led to isolation of the first casbane hydroperoxide diterpenes EBC-304 and EBC-320. Extensive DFT and electronic circular dichroism (ECD) calculations in combination with 2D NMR spectroscopy determined the absolute configurations. EBC-304 and EBC-320 both display significant cytotoxicity.
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