Pa. Leone et al., STUDIES OF AUSTRALIAN SOFT CORALS .49. A NEW BISCEMBRANOID AND ITS PROBABLE BIOSYNTHETIC PRECURSORS FROM THE SOFT CORAL SARCOPHYTON-TORTUOSUM, Journal of natural products, 56(4), 1993, pp. 521-526
The isolation of the new biscembranoid methyl neosartortuate acetate [
3] and its proposed biosynthetic precursors, methyl sarcoate [2] and t
he novel bisepoxide 4, from the soft coral Sarcophyton tortuosum is re
ported. Structures were elucidated by ID and 2D nmr spectroscopic tech
niques.