Abstract
A new cembrane-type diterpene, diepoxycembrene A (1), has been isolated from the Hainan soft coral Sinularia sp. Its structure was elucidated on the basis of detailed analysis of its spectroscopic data, and by comparison of its NMR spectral data with those of the related model compounds.
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Acknowledgements
The research work was financially supported by the National Marine ‘863’ Project (No. 2006AA09Z412), Natural Science Foundation of China (nos. 30730108 and 20721003), CAS Key Project (grant KSCX2-YW-R-18), and STCSM Projects (Nos. 017XD14036 and 06DZ22028) and partially funded by the grant from Syngenta-SIMM-Ph.D. Studentship Project.