A New 4α-Methylated Sterol from a Nephthea sp. (Nephtheidae) Bornean Soft Coral

Molecules

Takahiro Ishii¹  Hiroshi Matsuura¹  Zhan Zhaoqi¹ 

[1] ¹Laboratory of Natural Products Chemistry, Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, 88999 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia ²Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan ³Shimadzu (Asia Pacific) Pte Ltd, 16 Science Park Drive, #01-01, The Pasteur Singapore Science Park, 118227 Singapore

关键词: 4α-methyl steroid;    Nephthea sp.;    Nephtheidae;    soft coral;   

DOI  :  10.3390/molecules14093360

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

A new 4α-methyl sterol, 4α-methyl-ergosta-6,8(14),22E-triene-3β-ol (1), was isolated along with cholesterol from a Nephthea sp. Bornean soft coral The structure of compound 1 was elucidated on the basis of spectroscopic analysis and comparison of the data with those of the related compounds.

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