Diana A Zaleta-Pinet, Ian P Holland, Mauricio Muñoz-Ochoa, J Ivan Murillo-Alvarez, Jennette A Sakoff, Ian A van Altena, Adam McCluskey
BACKGROUND: The current investigation sought to explore the nature of the secondary metabolites in the algae, Laurencia pacifica. RESULTS: This report details the first isolation of the sesquiterpenes isoaplysin (1), isolaurenisol (2), debromoisolaurinterol (3), debromoaplysinol (4), laur-11-en-10-ol (5), 10α-hydroxyldebromoepiaplysin (6), and the previously unknown 10-bromo-3,7,11,11-tetramethylspiro[5.5]undeca-1,7-dien-3-ol (7) from the algae, Laurencia pacifica...
December 2014: Organic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters