The structure and synthesis of tsitsikammafuran: a new furanosesquiterpene from a South African Dysidea sponge

KL McPhail, DEA Rivett, DE Lack, MT Davies-Coleman

Index: McPhail, Kerry L.; Rivett, Douglas E.A.; Lack, David E.; Davies-Coleman, Michael T. Tetrahedron, 2000 , vol. 56, # 47 p. 9391 - 9396

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Abstract

Three furanosesquiterpenes, the new tsitsikammafuran (1) and the known nakafurans-8 (2) and-9 (3) were isolated from a South African Dysidea sponge. The structure of tsitsikammafuran, initially proposed as 3-[(furan-3-yl) methyl]-p-cymene, from a combination of biosynthetic arguments and the available spectroscopic data, was unequivocally confirmed by the synthesis of 1 from thymol. The synthesis of two regioisomers of ...