Gg. Harrigan et al., Dysideaprolines A-F and barbaleucamides A-B, novel polychlorinated compounds from a Dysidea species, J NAT PROD, 64(9), 2001, pp. 1133-1138
Chemical investigation of a marine sponge, Dysidea sp., collected at Barari
n Island, Philippines, has afforded the novel metabolites 1-6, proline-deri
ved analogues of dysidenin (7). We have termed compounds 1-6 dysideaproline
s A-F, respectively. Also isolated were compounds 8 and 9, structural analo
gues of barbamide (10), a metabolite originally isolated from the cyanobact
erium Lyngbya majuscula. We have termed these novel compounds barbaleucamid
es A (8) and B (9). It is most probable that the compounds presented here a
re actually derived from a symbiotic cyanobacterium found in close associat
ion with the Dysidea sp. Structure elucidation of the isolated metabolites
involved high-field 2D NMR spectroscopy including H-1-H-1 COSY, HSQC, and H
MBC.