Characterization of a yellow compound isolated from the marine sponge Phakellia flabellata

GM Sharma, JS Buyer, MW Pomerantz

Index: Sharma, Gurdial M.; Buyer, Jeffrey S.; Pomerantz, Mark W. Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, 1980 , # 10 p. 435 - 436

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Abstract

Summary A new yellow compound isolated from the Great Barrier Reef sponge Phakellia flabellata is shown to have structure (1). ... THE Great Barrier Reef sponge Phakellia Pnbellata produces a wide variety of natural products some of which possess antimicrobial activities while others are complex molecules unique to the marine envir0nment.l The structures of one class of compounds, called phakellins, isolated from this sponge have been reported in a ...