Natural Products Containing the Oxetane and Related Moieties Present Additional Challenges for Structure Elucidation: A DU8+ Computational Case Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 84 (12) ◽  
pp. 7575-7586 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrei G. Kutateladze ◽  
Tina Holt ◽  
D. Sai Reddy
Molecules ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 1094
Author(s):  
Melissa M. Cadelis ◽  
Soeren Geese ◽  
Benedict B. Uy ◽  
Daniel R. Mulholland ◽  
Shara J. van de Pas ◽  
...  

Antimicrobial bioassay-guided fractionation of the endophytic fungi Neofusicoccum australe led to the isolation of a new unsymmetrical naphthoquinone dimer, neofusnaphthoquinone B (1), along with four known natural products (2–5). Structure elucidation was conducted by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopic methods, and the antimicrobial activity of all the natural products was investigated, revealing 1 to be moderately active towards methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) with a minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of 16 µg/mL.


Molecules ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (11) ◽  
pp. 3235
Author(s):  
Melissa M. Cadelis ◽  
Hugo Gordon ◽  
Alex Grey ◽  
Soeren Geese ◽  
Daniel R. Mulholland ◽  
...  

Fungi have become an invaluable source of bioactive natural products, with more than 5 million species of fungi spanning the globe. Fractionation of crude extract of Neodidymelliopsis sp., led to the isolation of a novel polyketide, (2Z)-cillifuranone (1) and five previously reported natural products, (2E)-cillifuranone (2), taiwapyrone (3), xylariolide D (4), pachybasin (5), and N-(5-hydroxypentyl)acetamide (6). It was discovered that (2Z)-cillifuranone (1) was particularly sensitive to ambient temperature and light resulting in isomerisation to (2E)-cillifuranone (2). Structure elucidation of all the natural products were conducted by NMR spectroscopic techniques. The antimicrobial activity of 2, 3, and 5 were evaluated against a variety of bacterial and fungal pathogens. A sodium [1-13C] acetate labelling study was conducted on Neodidymelliopsis sp. and confirmed that pachybasin is biosynthesised through the acetate polyketide pathway.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhi Liu ◽  
Zhengwei Ding† ◽  
Kai Chen ◽  
Ming Xu ◽  
Tao Yu ◽  
...  

The fruitful advancement in synthetic chemistry of the title families of complex diterpenes has stimulated and enjoyed strategic balance between building the skeletons and installing the functional groups.


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