摘要:
                                Twenty-five new diterpenoids with representatives from three skeletal classes, briareins, eunicellins, and cembranes, have been isolated from a Pacific gorgonian, Solenopodium stechei.  The structural diversity of the diterpenoids isolated indicates significant biosynthetic versatility for this gorgonian.  Stecholides 1-20 are diterpene lactones of the briarein family distinguished by the presence of an alpha,beta-epoxide group in the lactone ring.  These structures were deduced by spectroscopic analyses.  The structure of solenopodin D, 24, a eunicellin-type diterpenoid, was established by X-ray analysis while the structures of three other solenopodins, 20-23, were confirmed by spectral analyses and comparison to data for 24.  Solenopodins A-D are the only eunicellin-type diterpenoids isolated to date which do not have an ether bridge across the 10-membered carbocyclic ring.  Only one cembranoid, 25, was isolated.  Diterpenoids 1, 3, and 20 show cytotoxicity to murine leukemia cells (P388).