title: Diterpenoids from cultured Erythropodium caribaeorum.
abstract: The known antimitotic agent eleutherobin and the briarane diterpenoids erythrolides A and B have been isolated from cultured specimens of Erythropodium caribaeorum in amounts comparable to those reported from wild-harvested reef animals. The novel diterpenoid aquariolide A, having an unprecedented highly rearranged carbon skeleton (named aquariane), has also been found. The aquariane skeleton can be formally derived from the briarane skeleton by sequential di-pi-methane and vinyl-cyclopropane rearrangements. [structure: see text]
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z1, Canada.
authors.forename: Orazio
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Taglialatela-Scafati
authors.forename: Urmila
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Deo-Jangra
authors.forename: Martha
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Campbell
authors.forename: Michel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Roberge
authors.forename: Raymond J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Andersen
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D037421:Anthozoa / Q000737:chemistry*; D004224:Diterpenes / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000302:isolation & purification
chemical_list: D004224:Diterpenes