New erythrolides from the Caribbean gorgonian octocoral Erythropodium caribaeorum

J Nat Prod. 2002 Mar;65(3):314-8. doi: 10.1021/np010333p.

Abstract

Seven new briarane diterpenes, erythrolides K-Q (1-7), as well as the known compounds erythrolides A, B, C, F, and J have been isolated from samples of the Caribbean gorgonian Erythropodium caribaeorumcollected at Buccoo Reef and Flying Reef, Tobago. The structures of the new compounds were determined by high-resolution 1H and 13C NMR spectroscopy utilizing COSY, HMBC, HMQC, and NOESY experiments. The structures of erythrolides K and P were confirmed and their relative stereochemistry determined by X-ray crystallographic analysis.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid
  • Cnidaria / chemistry*
  • Crystallography, X-Ray
  • Diterpenes / chemistry
  • Diterpenes / isolation & purification*
  • Molecular Conformation
  • Molecular Structure
  • Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Biomolecular
  • Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet
  • Stereoisomerism
  • Trinidad and Tobago

Substances

  • Diterpenes