Spongiadioxins A and B, two new polybrominated dibenzo-p-dioxins from an Australian marine sponge Dysidea dendyi

J Nat Prod. 2001 Feb;64(2):151-3. doi: 10.1021/np0003544.

Abstract

Two new cytotoxic tetrabromodibenzo-p-dioxins, spongiadioxins A (1) and B (2), were isolated from an Australian marine sponge Dysidea dendyi. The structures of these compounds were established by 1D and 2D NMR spectroscopy, X-ray analysis of the methyl ether of spongiadioxin A (3), and synthesis of the methyl ether of spongiadioxin B (4) from diphenyl ether (9) isolated from Dysidea herbacea.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Australia
  • Dioxins / chemistry
  • Dioxins / isolation & purification*
  • Dioxins / pharmacology
  • Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
  • Models, Chemical
  • Models, Molecular
  • Porifera / chemistry*

Substances

  • Dioxins
  • spongiadioxin A
  • spongiadioxin B