Trigocherrierin A (1) and trigocherriolide E (2), two new daphnane diterpenoid orthoesters (DDOs), and six chlorinated analogues, trigocherrins A, B, F and trigocherriolides A-C, were isolated from the leaves of Trigonostemon cherrieri. Their structures were identified by mass spectrometry, extensive one- and two-dimensional NMR spectroscopy and through comparison with data reported in the lite...

ery of biologically active compounds from fungi, we have initiated the chemical study of the Japanese lichen, Cladonia rangiferina (L.) WEB. (Cladoniaceae). The lichen, C. rangiferina, is widely distributed in southern Japan and which grows on the ground and rocks from high mountains to low lands. An earlier chemical constituent study of this lichen resulted in no report of the isolation and th...

Communic acids are diterpenes with labdane skeletons found in many plant species, mainly conifers, predominating in the genus Juniperus (fam. Cupresaceae). In this review we briefly describe their distribution and different biological activities (anti- bacterial, antitumoral, hypolipidemic, relaxing smooth muscle, etc.). This paper also includes a detailed explanation of their use as chiral bui...

Brønsted acid promoted nucleophilation of propargylic alcohols during the Meyer-Schuster rearrangement (M-S) has been introduced. A novel concept of reverse polarization of the M-S intermediate allenyl cation has been realized by employing a cis-enoate assisted strategy. This idea is well demonstrated by the metal free synthesis of complex, highly functionalized cyclic as well as acyclic α-aryl...

The title compound, C(20)H(28)O(2), commonly named Sugiol, is a natural oxygenated diterpene that we have isolated for the first time from a hexane extract of the fruits of Juniperus Oxycedrus L. Its X-ray crystal structure determination confirms an abietane skeleton which was predicted by spectroscopic analysis, mainly by (1)H and (13)C NMR. The cyclo-hexane ring adopts a flattened chair confo...

THE TITLE COMPOUND (SYSTEMATIC NAME 8β-acet-oxy-14α-benzo-yloxy-N-ethyl-13β,15α-dihydr-oxy-1α,6α,16β-trimeth-oxy-4β-methoxy-methyl-eneaconitane), C(34)H(47)NO(10), is a typical aconitine-type C(19)-diterpenoid alkaloid, and was isolated from the roots of the Aconitum carmichaeli Debx. The mol-ecule has an aconitine carbon skeleton with four six-membered rings and two five-membered rings, whose ...