Six new ent-kaurane diterpene glycosides, pharbosides A-F (1-6), and a new ent-gibbane diterpene glycoside, pharboside G (7), together with three known ent-kaurane diterpenoids, 7beta,16beta,17-trihydroxy-ent-kauran-6alpha,19-olide (8), 6beta,7beta,16alpha,17-tetrahydroxy-ent-kauranoic acid (9), and 6beta,7beta,16beta,17-tetrahydroxy-ent-kauranoic acid (10), were isolated from an ethanolic extr...

Covering: January to December 2013. Previous review, Nat. Prod. Rep., 2013, 30, 1346-1356. This review covers the isolation and chemistry of diterpenoids from terrestrial as opposed to marine sources and includes labdanes, clerodanes, abietanes, pimaranes, kauranes, cembranes and their cyclization products. There are 179 references.

The methanol extract of a Sinularia sp., collected from Bowden Reef, Queensland, Australia, yielded ten natural products. These included the new nitrogenous diterpene (4R*,5R*,9S*,10R*,11Z)-4-methoxy-9-((dimethylamino)-methyl)-12,15-epoxy-11(13)-en-decahydronaphthalen-16-ol (1), and the new lobane, (1R*,2R*,4S*,15E)-loba-8,10,13(14),15(16)-tetraen-17,18-diol-17-acetate (2). Also isolated were t...

Two new 13-hydroxycembrane diterpenoids, arbolides A (1) and B (2), along with a known trihydroxysteroid, crassarosterol A (3), were isolated from the soft coral Sinularia arborea. The structures of new cembranes 1 and 2 were elucidated by spectroscopic methods. Steroid 3 was found to exhibit cytotoxicity toward K562 and MOLT-4 leukemia.

The essential oils of Salvia ovalifolia, S. procurrens and uliginosa were obtained by hydrodistillation analyzed gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. three species displayed very low amounts oils, consisting a few sesquiterpenes, aliphatic compounds such as aldehydes long-chain fatty acids. From the leaves uliginosa, an exudate was which presented diterpene icetexone major component. evaluated...

The title compound [systematic name: (4bS)-4-hy-droxy-2-isopropyl-4b,8,8-trimethyl-4b,5,6,7,8,8a-hexa-hydro-phenanthrene-3,9-dione], C20H26O3, is an abietane-type diterpene, which was isolated from Taxodium ascendens (B.). In the crystal, mol-ecules are linked by weak C-H⋯O hydrogen bonds, forming supra-molecular chains propagating along the [001] direction.

Two new abietane diterpene glycosides, wilfordosides A (1) and B (2), were isolated from the roots of Tripterygium wilfordii. The structures of compounds 1 and 2 were established using spectroscopic methods including extensive 1D and 2D NMR analysis, in combination with chemical reactions.