Yan Li, Marianna Carbone, Rosa Maria Vitale, Pietro Amodeo, Francesco Castelluccio, Giovanna Sicilia, Ernesto Mollo, Michela Nappo, Guido Cimino, Yue-Wei Guo, Margherita Gavagnin
A series of nine casbane diterpenes, compounds 5-13, exhibiting either cis or trans ring junctions were isolated from the Hainan soft coral Sinularia depressa. The structures of this group of compounds, the basic member of which was named depressin (5), were established by detailed spectroscopic analysis. In addition, the absolute configuration of the main metabolite, 10-hydroxydepressin (7), and of its epimer, 1-epi-10-hydroxydepressin (8), was determined by a combination of conformational analysis and the modified Mosher's method...
February 26, 2010: Journal of Natural Products