ISOLATION AND STRUCTURE OF A NOVEL MYCOSPORINE-LIKE AMINO-ACID FROM THE REEF-BUILDING CORALS POCILLOPORA-DAMICORNIS AND STYLOPHORA-PISTILLATA

Authors
WON JJW RIDEOUT JA CHALKER BE
Citation
Jjw. Won et al., ISOLATION AND STRUCTURE OF A NOVEL MYCOSPORINE-LIKE AMINO-ACID FROM THE REEF-BUILDING CORALS POCILLOPORA-DAMICORNIS AND STYLOPHORA-PISTILLATA, Tetrahedron letters, 36(29), 1995, pp. 5255-5256
Citations number
5
Categorie Soggetti
Chemistry Inorganic & Nuclear
Journal title
Tetrahedron letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00404039
Volume
36
Issue
29
Year of publication
1995
Pages
5255 - 5256
Database
ISI
SICI code
0040-4039(1995)36:29<5255:IASOAN>2.0.ZU;2-2
Abstract
A novel 330 nm UV absorbing compound, a methylamine substituted mycosp orine (1), was isolated from methanol extracts of two hermatypic scler actinians. Structural elucidation yielded the molecular formula C13H22 N2O6. This was given the trivial name Mycosporine-methylamine:threonin e.