Abstract
Eleven new cembrane diterpenes, namely, sarcoehrenins A–J (1–9, 11) and (2S,11S,12S)-isosarcophytoxide (10), along with six known compounds, gibberosene B (12), (13S)-cembra-1,3,7,11-tetraen-13-ol (13), (+)-sarcophtol (14), cembrene-C (15), (1R,4R,2E,7E,11E)-cembra-2,7,11-trien-4-ol (16) and (1S,4R,2E,7E,11E)-cembratrien-4-ol (17) were isolated from the soft coral Sarcophyton ehrenbergi collected from Weizhou Island, Beibu Gulf, South China Sea. The structures of these compounds were elucidated by a combination of detailed spectroscopic analyses, chemical methods, and comparison with reported data. The absolute configuration of compound 2 was established by the modified Mosher's method in association with TDDFT ECD calculation, while the absolute configuration of compound 3 was assigned by TDDFT ECD approach. In in vitro bioassays, compounds 13 and 17 showed potent TNF-α inhibitory activities being similar to that of positive control dexamethasone. A preliminary structural-activity relationship was also described.
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