Marine natural products

JW Blunt, BR Copp, MHG Munro, PT Northcote… - Natural product …, 2010‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 2008. Previous review: Nat. Prod. Rep., 2009, 26, 170This review covers the
literature published in 2008 for marine natural products, with 829 citations (613 for the …

Discorhabdins and pyrroloiminoquinone-related alkaloids

JF Hu, H Fan, J **ong, SB Wu - Chemical reviews, 2011‏ - ACS Publications
Alkaloids, such as lamellarins1 and manzamines, 2 with complex structures and promising
biological activities produced by marine plants, invertebrates and microbes have greatly …

Determination of absolute configuration of natural products: theoretical calculation of electronic circular dichroism as a tool

XC Li, D Ferreira, Y Ding - Current organic chemistry, 2010‏ - benthamdirect.com
Determination of absolute configuration (AC) is one of the most challenging features in the
structure elucidation of chiral natural products, especially those with complex structures …

Unified Divergent Total Synthesis of Discorhabdin B, H, K, and Aleutianamine via the Late-Stage Oxidative N,S-Acetal Formation

M Shimomura, K Ide, J Sakata… - Journal of the American …, 2023‏ - ACS Publications
This study achieved the total syntheses of (+)-discorhabdin B,(−)-discorhabdin H,(+)-
discorhabdin K, and (−)-aleutianamine. A phenethylamine fragment bearing ao-pivaloylthio …

Total Synthesis of (+)‐Discorhabdin V

BC Derstine, AJ Cook, JD Collings… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
The discorhabdin natural products are a large subset of pyrroloiminoquinone alkaloids with
a myriad of biological activities. Despite garnering much synthetic attention, few members …

Occurrence of halogenated alkaloids

GW Gribble - The Alkaloids: Chemistry and Biology, 2012‏ - Elsevier
The number of known natural organohalogen compounds of all types has grown from 30 in
1968 to> 5000 today. About 25% of halogenated natural products are alkaloids, mostly …

Absolute structural elucidation of natural products—A focus on quantum‐mechanical calculations of solid‐state CD spectra

G Pescitelli, T Kurtan, U Flörke… - … Biological, and Chemical …, 2009‏ - Wiley Online Library
In this review article we examine state‐of‐the‐art techniques for the structural elucidation of
organic compounds isolated from natural sources. In particular, we focus on the …

[HTML][HTML] Current perspectives on pyrroloiminoquinones: distribution, biosynthesis and drug discovery potential

JCJ Kalinski, A Polyzois, SC Waterworth… - Molecules, 2022‏ - mdpi.com
Pyrroloiminoquinones are a group of cytotoxic alkaloids most commonly isolated from
marine sponges. Structurally, they are based on a tricyclic pyrrolo [4, 3, 2-de] quinoline core …

Natural products from sponges

BN Han, LL Hong, BB Gu, YT Sun, J Wang… - … Microbiomes of Coral …, 2019‏ - Springer
The sponge is one of the oldest multicellular invertebrates in the world. Marine sponges
represent one of the extant metazoans of 700–800 million years. They are classified in four …

[HTML][HTML] An investigation of structure–activity relationships and cell death mechanisms of the marine alkaloids discorhabdins in Merkel Cell Carcinoma Cells

M Orfanoudaki, EA Smith, NT Hill, KA Garman… - Marine Drugs, 2023‏ - mdpi.com
A library of naturally occurring and semi-synthetic discorhabdins was assessed for their
effects on Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) cell viability. The set included five new natural …