%0 Journal Article
%T Secondary Metabolites from the Soft Coral Sinularia arborea
%A Kuan-Hua Chen
%A Chang-Feng Dai
%A Mei-Chin Lu
%A Jan-Jung Li
%A Jih-Jung Chen
%A Yu-Chia Chang
%A Yin-Di Su
%A Wei-Hsien Wang
%A Ping-Jyun Sung
%J Marine Drugs
%D 2013
%I MDPI AG
%R 10.3390/md11093372
%X Previous studies on the chemical constituents of soft corals belonging to the genus Sinularia have led to the isolation of a number of interesting secondary metabolites and some of these were found to possess extensive bioactivities [1¨C3]. Continuation investigation on the chemical constituents of the marine invertebrates collected off the waters of Taiwan, two new cembrane-type diterpenoids, arbolides A ( 1) and B ( 2), and a known steroid, crassarosterol A ( 3) [4], were isolated from the soft coral Sinularia arborea (family Alcyonacea) (Figure 1). In this paper, we describe the isolation, structure determination and cytotoxicity of compounds 1¨C 3.
%U http://www.mdpi.com/1660-3397/11/9/3372