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New Furano-sesquiterpenoids from Mediterranean Sponges
Guella, Graziano,Mancini, Ines,Guerriero, Antonio,Pietra, Francesco
, p. 1276 - 1282 (1985)
A mixture of sponges of the East Pyrenean Mediterranean is shown to contain the known sponge products longifolin (1), avarol ((+)-3), and avarone (4) and the terrestrial-plant product sesquirosefuran (2), besides to the new furano-sesquiterpenoids tavacfuran (= 3-methyl-2-furan; 5) and tavacpallescensin (= 5,10-dihydro-6,9-dimethyl-4H-benzocycloheptafuran; 6) and the new furano-butenolide sesquiterpenoids tavacbutenolide-1 (= (+/-)-4-ethoxy-2-methyl-4--2-buten-4-olide; (+/-)-7) and tavacbutenolide-2 (= (+/-)-4-ethoxy-3-methyl-4--2-buten-4-olide; (+/-)-8).Structural assignments are based on NMR data and on the synthesis of the (E)-isomer of 5.The sponge Dysidea tupha of the same area is also shown to contain the two sesquiterpenoids ent-furodysinin ((-)-14), which is enantiomeric to a product of a Dysidea sp. of Australian waters, and tuphabutenolide ((+)-15).