Novel cytotoxic cembranoids from the soft coral Sinularia flexibilis

J Nat Prod. 1998 Jun 26;61(6):844-7. doi: 10.1021/np980021v.

Abstract

Three new cytotoxic cembranoid diterpenes, sinuflexolide (1), dihydrosinuflexolide (2), and sinuflexibilin (3), have been isolated from the soft coral Sinularia flexibilis. The structures of compounds 1-3 were determined by spectral and X-ray crystallographic analysis.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Antineoplastic Agents / isolation & purification*
  • Antineoplastic Agents / pharmacology
  • Cnidaria / chemistry*
  • Diterpenes / isolation & purification*
  • Diterpenes / pharmacology
  • Drug Screening Assays, Antitumor
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
  • Mass Spectrometry
  • Molecular Conformation
  • Spectrophotometry, Infrared
  • Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet
  • Tumor Cells, Cultured

Substances

  • Antineoplastic Agents
  • Diterpenes
  • dihydrosinuflexolide
  • sinuflexibilin
  • sinuflexolide