ORGN 550 |
| Xiaomei Wei and Abimael D. Rodríguez. Department of Chemistry, University of Puerto Rico, PO BOX 23346, San Juan, PR 00931-3346 |
| The secondary metabolite composition of the gorgonian octocoral Eunicea spp. from Old Providence Is., Colombia, is described for the first time. This investigation has resulted in the isolation of various diterpene skeleton types, namely, dolabellane, cembrane, cubitane, fuscol and dilophol. Here, we discuss four new cembranoid diterpenes (1-4). The structural elucidation and relative stereochemistry of each compound was carried out by spectroscopic analysis (1D, 2D-NMR, MS, IR) and in the case of compound 1, its molecular structure was confirmed by a single-crystal X-ray study. Compound 1 showed significant antimalarial activity. The biological screening of the remaining metabolites is currently under investigation.
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Bioorganic, Molecular Recognition, Asymmetric Reactions and Syntheses
11:00 AM-1:00 PM, Wednesday, September 10, 2003 Javits Convention Center -- Hall 1B/1C, Poster
Division of Organic Chemistry |