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New diterpenes from the South African soft coral Eleutherobia aurea
G J Hooper1, M T Davies-Coleman, M Schleyer
1Department of Chemistry, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa.
Journal of Natural Products
|October 10, 1997
Abstract:
The known diterpenoids zahavin A and 9-deacetoxy-14,15-deepoxyxeniculin and the two new diterpenoids 7,8-epoxyzahavin A and xeniolide C were isolated from specimens of Eleutherobia aurea collected from Aliwal Shoal off the southern Kwazulu-Natal coast, South Africa. Standard spectroscopic methods were used for the structure determinations. The former three diterpenoids inhibit superoxide production in rabbit-cell neutrophils.