title: Diplobifuranylones A and B, 5'-monosubstituted tetrahydro-2H-bifuranyl-5-ones produced by Diplodia corticola, a fungus pathogen of cork oak.
abstract: Two new 5'-monosubstituted tetrahydro-2H-bifuranyl-5-ones, named diplobifuranylones A and B (1 and 2), were isolated from the culture filtrates of Diplodia corticola, the causal agent of a canker of cork oak (Quercus suber). The same fungus also produced eight known metabolites, namely, the diplopyrone, (3S,4R)-trans- and (3R,4R)-cis-4-hydroxymellein, sapinofuranone B and its (S,S)-enantiomer, and sphaeropsidins A-C. Diplobifuranylones A and B (1 and 2) were characterized, using spectroscopic and chemical methods, as two diastereomeric 5'-(1-hydroxyethyl)-3,4,2',5'-tetrahydro-2H-[2,2']bifuranyl-5-ones. While the relative stereochemistry of the two metabolites (1 and 2) was deduced by NOESY and ROESY experiments, the absolute stereochemistry of the chiral carbon of the hydroxyethyl side chain at C-5', determined by application of Mosher's method, proved to be S and R in 1 and 2, respectively. Assayed on a nonhost plant, diplobifuranylones A and B did not show phytotoxic activity. In an Artemia salina larvae lethality bioassay neither 1 nor 2 was toxic at the highest concentration tested (300 microg/mL).
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Scienze del Suolo, della Pianta e dell'Ambiente, Università di Napoli Federico II, 80055 Portici, Italy. evidente@unina.it
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Evidente
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Andolfi
authors.forename: Michele
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fiore
authors.forename: Emanuela
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Spanu
authors.forename: Lucia
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Maddau
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Franceschini
authors.forename: Francesco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Marras
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Motta
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001156:Artemia / Q000187:drug effects; D001203:Ascomycota / Q000737:chemistry*; D005663:Furans / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000494:pharmacology; D007558:Italy; D007814:Larva / Q000187:drug effects; D015394:Molecular Structure; D010935:Plant Diseases / Q000382:microbiology*; D029963:Quercus / Q000382:microbiology*; D013237:Stereoisomerism
chemical_list: D005663:Furans; C511026:diplobifuranylone A; C511027:diplobifuranylone B