Mar. Drugs 2011, 9(7), 1243-1253; doi:10.3390/md9071243
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Cembranoids with 3,14-Ether Linkage and a Secocembrane with Bistetrahydrofuran from the Dongsha Atoll Soft Coral Lobophytum sp.

Mohamed Elamir F. Hegazy 1 email, Jui-Hsin Su 2,3 email, Ping-Jyun Sung 2,3 email and Jyh-Horng Sheu 1,4,* email
1 Department of Marine Biotechnology and Resources, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung 804, Taiwan 2 National Museum of Marine Biology & Aquarium, Pingtung 944, Taiwan 3 Graduate Institute of Marine Biotechnology, National Dong Hwa University, Pingtung 944, Taiwan 4 Division of Marine Biotechnology, Asia-Pacific Ocean Research Center, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung 804, Taiwan
* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Received: 23 May 2011; in revised form: 21 June 2011 / Accepted: 5 July 2011 / Published: 12 July 2011
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Abstract: Four new cembranoids, lobophylins A–D (1–4), and one novel secocembrane, lobophylin E (5) were isolated from a soft coral Lobophytum sp. The structures of new metabolites were elucidated on the basis of extensive spectroscopic methods. Among these metabolites, 1–4 are rarely found cembranoids possessing a tetrahydrofuran moiety with a 3,14-ether linkage. In addition, 5 is the first secocembrane possessing two tetrahydrofuran moieties with 3,14- and 4,7-ether linkages.
Keywords: soft coral; secocembrane; Lobophytum; tetrahydrofuran

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Hegazy, M.E.F.; Su, J.-H.; Sung, P.-J.; Sheu, J.-H. Cembranoids with 3,14-Ether Linkage and a Secocembrane with Bistetrahydrofuran from the Dongsha Atoll Soft Coral Lobophytum sp.. Mar. Drugs 2011, 9, 1243-1253.

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Hegazy MEF, Su J-H, Sung P-J, Sheu J-H. Cembranoids with 3,14-Ether Linkage and a Secocembrane with Bistetrahydrofuran from the Dongsha Atoll Soft Coral Lobophytum sp.. Marine Drugs. 2011; 9(7):1243-1253.

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Hegazy, Mohamed Elamir F.; Su, Jui-Hsin; Sung, Ping-Jyun; Sheu, Jyh-Horng. 2011. "Cembranoids with 3,14-Ether Linkage and a Secocembrane with Bistetrahydrofuran from the Dongsha Atoll Soft Coral Lobophytum sp.." Mar. Drugs 9, no. 7: 1243-1253.

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