Halogenated Terpenes and a C15-Acetogenin from the Marine Red Alga Laurencia saitoi
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Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research for Sustainable Development, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yantai 264003, P. R. China
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Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, P. R. China
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Molecules 2008, 13(11), 2894-2899; https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules13112894
Submission received: 27 October 2008
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Revised: 17 November 2008
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Accepted: 19 November 2008
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Published: 20 November 2008
Abstract
:Seven parguerane diterpenes: 15-bromo-2,7,19-triacetoxyparguer-9(11)-en-16-ol (1), 15-bromo-2,7,16,19-tetraacetoxyparguer-9(11)-ene (2), 15-bromo-2,19-diacetoxy-parguer-9(11)-en-7,16-diol (3), 15-bromo-2,16,19-triacetoxyparguer-9(11)-en-7-ol (4), 15-bromo-2,16-diacetoxyparguer-9(11)-en-7-ol (5), 15-bromoparguer-9(11)-en-16-ol (6), 15-bromoparguer-7-en-16-ol (7), two polyether triterpenes: thyrsiferol (8) and thyrsiferyl 23-acetate (9), and one C15-acetogenin, neolaurallene (10), were isolated from a sample of marine red alga Laurencia saitoi collected off the coast of Yantai. Their structures were established by detailed NMR spectroscopic analysis and comparison with literature data.
Introduction
The marine red algae of the genus Laurencia (family Rhodomelaceae, order Ceramiales) comprise about 135 species worldwide, which are mainly spread along tropical, subtropical, and temperate coasts [1]. The taxonomy of Laurencia species has been widely studied and is often confusing due to the high morphological variability within individual species. The secondary metabolites of the genus Laurencia, which have been mostly investigated since the 1960s, are mainly composed of sesquiterpenes, diterpenes, triterpenes, and C15-acetogenins [2], and they are characteristic of individual Laurencia species [1,3]. Our chemical investigation of the marine red alga L. saitoi collected off the coast of Yantai revealed a new naturally occurring diterpene, 15-bromo-2,7,19-tri-acetoxyparguer-9(11)-en-16-ol (1) [4], together with nine known natural products: 15-bromo-2,7,16,19-tetraacetoxyparguer-9(11)-ene (2) [5], 15-bromo-2,19-diacetoxyparguer-9(11)-en-7,16-diol (3) [4], 15-bromo-2,16,19-triacetoxyparguer-9(11)-en-7-ol (4) [4], 15-bromo-2,16-diacetoxyparguer-9(11)-en-7-ol (5) [6], 15-bromoparguer-9(11)-en-16-ol (6) [7], 15-bromoparguer-7-en-16-ol (7) [7], thyrsiferol (8) [8], thyrsiferyl 23-acetate (9) [9], and neolaurallene (10) [10,11]. The isolation and structural determination of compounds 1-10 (Figure 1) are the subject of this paper.
Results and Discussion
The dried and powdered alga L. saitoi was extracted with the mixture of CHCl3 and MeOH (2:1, v/v). The concentrated extracts were partitioned between H2O and EtOAc. The EtOAc-soluble fraction was purified by a combination of silica gel and Sephadex LH-20 column chromatography, as well as preparative TLC procedures, to yield compounds 1-10.
Figure 1.
Structures of compounds 1-10.
Compounds 1-4 exhibited similar 1H-NMR spectra, which all displayed two upfield methyls, two oxygenated methylenes, three oxygenated (or halogenated) methines, and one olefinic proton. Additionally, three, four, two, and three acetyl group methyls were observed in compounds 1-4, respectively. Thus, 1-4 differed from each other in the number and position of acetyl groups. The structures of 1-4 were preliminarily assigned by comparison of their 1H-NMR data with those in literature [4,5], and the structure of 4 was unambiguously established by comparison of its 13C-NMR and DEPT spectroscopic data with those in the literature [4]. A detailed comparison of the 13C-NMR and DEPT spectroscopic data of 3 with those of 4 confirmed that 3 was a deacetylated derivative of 4 at C-16 by the lack of one acetyl group and 9.5 ppm downfield shift of C-15 and 1.7 ppm upfield shift of C-16 in the 13C-NMR spectrum of 3[4,12]. Compound 2 was established as a C-7 acetylated derivative of 4, as indicated by the presence of an additional acetyl group and a 1.4 ppm downfield shift of C-7 in the 13C-NMR spectrum [4,12].
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 37.4 t | 37.4 t | 37.5 t | 37.4 t | 38.2 t | 31.1 t | 30.3 t | 31.0 q | 31.0 q | 73.9 d |
| 2 | 68.2 d | 68.2 d | 68.3 d | 68.3 d | 69.4 d | 19.4 t | 19.2 t | 75.0 s | 75.0 s | 201.4 s |
| 3 | 22.0 d | 21.9 d | 22.1 d | 22.1 d | 23.6 d | 19.3 d | 20.6 d | 59.0 d | 58.9 d | 102.2 d |
| 4 | 20.7 s | 20.6 s | 20.8 s | 20.8 s | 17.2 s | 16.3 s | 15.1 s | 28.3 t | 28.2 t | 74.5 d |
| 5 | 45.6 d | 45.6 d | 45.8 d | 45.8 d | 46.6 d | 50.1 d | 38.6 d | 37.0 t | 37.0 t | 39.0 t |
| 6 | 29.5 t | 29.5 t | 33.5 t | 33.5 t | 34.7 t | 25.5 t | 27.0 t | 74.4 s | 74.4 s | 72.8 d |
| 7 | 78.2 d | 78.3 d | 76.7 d | 76.9 d | 76.7 d | 35.9 t | 121.1 d | 86.6 d | 86.5 d | 79.7 d |
| 8 | 35.2 d | 35.2 d | 38.3 d | 38.3 d | 38.4 d | 30.7 d | 136.3 s | 23.0 t | 23.0 t | 26.8 t |
| 9 | 142.1 s | 142.2 s | 142.9 s | 143.1 s | 143.5 s | 147.1 s | 50.3 d | 38.6 t | 38.5 t | 127.3 d |
| 10 | 36.5 s | 36.4 s | 36.5 s | 36.5 s | 37.1 s | 37.5 s | 32.4 s | 72.0 s | 71.9 s | 129.3 d |
| 11 | 118.5 d | 118.3 d | 117.7 d | 117.5 d | 117.2 d | 114.4 d | 24.6 t | 76.4 d | 76.3 d | 34.7 t |
| 12 | 37.4 t | 37.4 t | 37.9 t | 38.0 t | 38.1 t | 39.3 t | 37.1 t | 21.2 t | 21.2 t | 52.8 d |
| 13 | 35.2 s | 35.3 s | 35.3 s | 35.4 s | 35.5 s | 35.6 s | 39.8 s | 20.7 t | 20.7 t | 84.4 d |
| 14 | 38.8 t | 38.6 t | 38.9 t | 38.8 t | 38.8 t | 41.8 t | 46.8 t | 76.1 d | 76.1 d | 23.2 t |
| 15 | 68.7 d | 58.9 d | 69.0 d | 59.5 d | 59.6 d | 70.0 d | 76.4 d | 73.3 s | 73.2 s | 11.4 q |
| 16 | 64.4 t | 65.9 t | 64.3 t | 66.0 t | 66.1 t | 64.5 t | 63.8 t | 33.6 t | 33.6 t | |
| 17 | 24.7 q | 24.2 q | 24.8 q | 24.3 q | 24.3 q | 24.9 q | 19.4 q | 25.5 t | 25.4 t | |
| 18 | 18.9 t | 18.8 t | 18.8 t | 18.8 t | 21.7 t | 21.4 t | 19.7 t | 77.7 d | 77.5 d | |
| 19 | 69.6 t | 69.5 t | 69.8 t | 69.8 t | 23.2 q | 24.1 q | 24.6 q | 86.1 s | 86.3 s | |
| 20 | 19.9 q | 19.6 q | 20.0 q | 19.8 q | 19.6 q | 17.9 q | 19.5 q | 32.5 t | 31.9 t | |
| 21 | 26.6 t | 26.8 t | ||||||||
| 22 | 87.5 d | 85.8 d | ||||||||
| 23 | 70.5 s | 82.5 s | ||||||||
| 24 | 24.0 q | 22.1 q | ||||||||
| 25 | 23.7 q | 23.7 q | ||||||||
| 26 | 20.1 q | 20.1 q | ||||||||
| 27 | 21.4 q | 21.4 q | ||||||||
| 28 | 22.9 q | 22.9 q | ||||||||
| 29 | 23.4 q | 23.2 q | ||||||||
| 30 | 27.6 q | 22.4 q | ||||||||
| CH3CO | 21.6 q | 21.5 q | 21.6 q | 21.6 q | 21.6 q | 22.0 q | ||||
| CH3CO | 21.2 q | 21.2 q | 21.1 q | 21.1 q | 20.9 q | |||||
| CH3CO | 21.1 q | 21.1 q | 20.9 q | |||||||
| CH3CO | 20.9 q | |||||||||
| CH3CO | 170.9 s | 170.8 s | 170.9 s | 170.9 s | 170.7 s | 170.4 s | ||||
| CH3CO | 170.6 s | 170.6 s | 170.6 s | 170.7 s | 170.6 s | |||||
| CH3CO | 170.5 s | 170.6 s | 170.5 s | |||||||
| CH3CO | 170.4 s |
Further, compound 1 was established as the C-16 deacetylated derivative of 2 based on the disappearance of one acetyl group and 9.8 ppm downfield shift of C-15 and 1.5 ppm upfield shift of C-16 in the 13C-NMR spectrum of 1 [4,12]. Compound 1 has been previously reported as a derivative of 2, obtained after saponification of 2 with aqueous 10% Na2CO3 at room temperature [4]. The structures of 5-10 were unambiguously established by comparison of their 1H and 13C-NMR data with those in the literature [6,7,8,9,10,11]. The 13C-NMR data of compounds 1-10 are shown in Table 1, and those of 1-3 are reported for the first time.
Previous investigations revealed that the secondary metabolites of L. saitoi from the western Pacific Ocean, which was misidentified as L. obtusa due to their morphological similarity [13], comprised parguerane diterpenes, polyether triterpenes, and two sesquiterpenes [4,9,14,15,16,17,18]. Parguerane diterpenes which possess a unique modified pimarane skeleton were firstly isolated from the sea hare Aplysia dactylomela and have subsequently only been found in several other Laurencia species, such as L. obtusa, L. nipponica, and L. filiformis [5,6,7,12]. Our study confirms the view that parguerane diterpenes and polyether triterpenes together are characteristic of the chemical composition of L. saitoi. On the other hand, this is the first report of the occurrence of a C15-acetogenin in L. saitoi and compounds 1, 6, and 7 add to the molecular diversity of parguerane diterpenes present in this species.
Experimental
General
NMR spectra were recorded at 500 and 125 MHz for 1H and 13C, respectively, on a Bruker Avance 500 MHz NMR spectrometer in CDCl3 with TMS as internal standard. Column chromatography was performed with silica gel (200-300 mesh, Qingdao Haiyang Chemical Co., Qingdao, P.R. China) andSephadex LH-20 (Pharmacia). TLC was carried out with precoated silica gel plates (GF-254, Qingdao Haiyang Chemical Co., Qingdao, P.R. China). All solvents were of analytical grade.
Algal Material
The red alga Laurencia saitoi Perestenko was collected off the coast of Yantai (lat. 37°31’15”N, long. 121°26’59”E), Shandong Province, P. R. China, in July 2008. It was identified by one of the authors (Nai-Yun Ji) and a voucher specimen (MRA0807) has been deposited at the Bio-Resource Laboratory of Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research for Sustainable Development, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Extraction and Isolation
Dried and powdered alga L. saitoi (70 g) was extracted with the mixture of CHCl3 and MeOH (2:1, v/v). The concentrated extract was partitioned between H2O and EtOAc. The EtOAc-soluble fraction was fractioned by silica gel column chromatography (petroleum ether (PE)/EtOAc gradient) to give six fractions, I-VI. The fraction II, eluted with PE/EtOAc 100:1, was purified by Sephadex LH-20 column chromatography (CHCl3/MeOH 1:1) to afford 10 (43.0 mg). The fraction III, eluted with PE/EtOAc 30:1, was purified by Sephadex LH-20 column chromatography (CHCl3/MeOH 1:1) and preparative TLC (PE/CHCl3 1:1) to afford 6 (3.8 mg) and 7 (3.8 mg). The fraction VI, eluted with EtOAc, was purified by Sephadex LH-20 column chromatography (CHCl3/MeOH 1:1) and preparative TLC (CHCl3/EtOAc 4:3) to afford 1 (4.9 mg), 2 (51.6 mg), 3 (10.8 mg), 4 (17.3 mg), 5 (14.5 mg), 8 (8.5 mg), and 9 (31.7 mg).
Acknowledgements
This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (30530080), National High-Tech R & D Project (2007AA09Z403), Foundation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences for President’s Scholarship, and Open Foundation of Shandong Oriental Ocean Sci-Tech Co., Ltd.
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