Four new polyacetylenes (34) with cytotoxic activities against human tumor cell lines (A549, SK-OV-3, SK-MEL-2, XF498, and HCTl5) have been isolated from the marine sponge petMsia sp Th9 were given the trivial names of dideoxypetrosynols A-D.
New polyacetylenes from the sponge Siphonochalina sp.
β Scribed by M. Rotem; Y. Kashman
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1979
- Tongue
- French
- Weight
- 309 KB
- Volume
- 20
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0040-4039
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β¦ Synopsis
Six new compounds, characterized by a long unsaturated alkyl chain (nC22), were isolated from a marine sponge. All compounds except for one, possess an enyne terminus on one side of the molecule and either a terminal acetylene (in four) or a propargyl alcohol on the other end. Four of the compounds were unequivocally identified mainly by spectroscopic methods. Acetylenic compounds are well-known constituents of plants: only few, however, are known from marine organisms and to our knowledge only one group of compounds contains more than a single triple bond. Among the acetylene contalnlng marine natural products are: A group of halogenated ethers, characterized by a straight-chain C-15 carbon skeleton and a terminal enyne function which has been isolated from algae' and a sea hare2, carotenoids 3 , two steroids4, a sesquiterpene' 637 and polyketids . A diacetylene was found in a group of several n C-22 straight-chain compounds isolated from
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