Discorhabdins C (1), A (2), and B (3) have been isolated as the major pigments from three sponge species of the genus Latrunculia du Bocage (family Latrunculiidae, order Hadromerida) from New Zealand.1,2 Discorhabdin A (2) has also been isolated independently (and named prianosin A) from an Okinawan sponge, Prianos melanos 3,4 (family Hymeniacidonidae, order Halichondrida), and its structure and absolute configuration demonstrated by X-ray crystallography.
This document is the accepted manuscript version of a published work that appeared in final form in The Journal of Organic Chemistry after peer review and technical editing by the publisher. To access the final edited and published work see http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jo00252a052. This article may be cited as: Perry, N. B., Blunt, J. W., Munro, M. H. G., Higa, T., & Sakai, R. (1988). Discorhabdin D, an antitumor alkaloid from the sponges Latrunculia brevis and Prianos sp. The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 53(17), 4127-4128. doi:10.1021/jo00252a052
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