Abstract
Two new metabolites, sarcophytonone (1) and sarcophytonamine (2), have been isolated from the Hainan soft coral Sarcophyton crassocaule. Their structures were elucidated on the basis of a detailed analysis of spectroscopic data, and by comparison of their NMR spectral data with those of the related model compounds.
Acknowledgements
This work was financially supported by the Cultivation Fund of the Key Scientific and Technical Innovation Project of the Ministry of Education of China (No. 706038), the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in Universities of the Ministry of Education of China (No. NCET-05-0600), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos 40776073 and 30572314), and the Basic Research Program of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology of China (No. 2007FY210500).