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Lemnardosinanes A-I: New Bioactive Sesquiterpenoids from Soft Coral Lemnalia sp
Mingyu Liu1,2, Pinglin Li1,2, Xuli Tang3
1Key Laboratory of Marine Drugs, Chinese Ministry of Education, School of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
Two rearranged nardosinane sesquiterpenoids with novel carbon skeletons, lemnardosinanes A (1) and B (2), and seven new nardosinane-related sesquiterpeniod lemnardosinanes C-I (3-9), together with a known compound 6,7-seco-13-nornardosinan (10), were isolated from the soft coral Lemnalia sp. collected from Xisha Islands of the South China Sea. Their structures were elucidated by comprehensive spectroscopic analyses, Mosher's method, Mo2(OAc)4-induced circular dichroism experiment, and quantum chemical calculations. Plausible biosynthetic pathways of 1-10 were proposed. Compounds 1 and 10 displayed in vivo angiogenesis promoting activity in a zebrafish model. Compounds 3 and 4 exhibited antiviral activity against the H1N1 virus with IC50 values of 10.9 and 41.5 μM, respectively.
