Marine Drugs (Dec 2011)

Natural Product Chemistry of Gorgonian Corals of Genus Junceella—Part II

  • Mei-Chin Lu,
  • Jimmy Kuo,
  • Jyh-Horng Sheu,
  • Ping-Jyun Sung,
  • Jan-Jung Li,
  • Lee-Shing Fang,
  • Wei-Hsien Wang,
  • Tai-Ting Chou,
  • Yin-Pin Cheng,
  • Ching-Feng Weng,
  • Chia-Hung Lee,
  • Yang-Chang Wu,
  • Jui-Hsin Su

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/md9122773
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 12
pp. 2773 – 2792

Abstract

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The structures, names, bioactivities, and references of 81 new secondary metabolites obtained from gorgonian corals belonging to the genus Junceella are described in this review. All compounds mentioned in this review were obtained from sea whip gorgonian corals Junceella fragilis and Junceella juncea, collected from the tropical and subtropical Indo-Pacific Ocean.

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