Terpenoid Content of the Antarctic Soft Coral Alcyonium antarcticum

• Published in: Natural Product Communications
• Main Authors: Manzo, Emiliano, Ciavatta, Maria Letizia, Nuzzo, Genoveffa, Gavagnin, Margherita
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: SAGE Publications 2009
• Subjects: Complementary and alternative medicine; Plant Science; Drug Discovery; Pharmacology; General Medicine; Antarctic; Terra Nova Bay; The Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1934578x0900401201; http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1934578X0900401201

Chemical investigation of the soft coral Alcyonium antarcticum, collected off Terra Nova Bay, resulted in the isolation of two closely related sesquiterpenes, alcyonicene (1) and deacetoxy-alcyonicene (2), along with known terpenoid compounds. The structure elucidation of the new molecules, possessing a rare bulgarane skeleton, has been made mainly by NMR techniques.