Saxitoxin (STX) and its 57 analogs are a broad group of natural neurotoxic alkaloids, commonly known as the paralytic shellfish toxins (PSTs). PSTs are the causative agents of paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) and are mostly associated with marine dinoflagellates (eukaryotes) and freshwater cyanobacteria (prokaryotes), which form extensive blooms around the world. PST producing dinoflagellate...

This article describes a design and synthesis of new and versatile chiral building blocks and its application to the biologically active natural product synthesis. The chiral building blocks were prepared using a biocatalysis in an enantiomerically pure state. As an application of the above chiral building blocks to the synthesis of biologically active natural product, we demonstrated the diast...

A bioactivity guided study of a cf. Caldora penicillata species, collected during a 2013 expedition to the Pacific island of Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands (a commonwealth of the USA), led to the isolation of a new thiazoline-containing alkaloid, laucysteinamide A (1). Laucysteinamide A is a new monomeric analogue of the marine cyanobacterial metabolite, somocystinamide A (2), a disulfide-bon...

Pyrrole-imidazole alkaloids are widely distributed in marine sponges of the orders Halichondrida and Agelasida. Chemical investigation of the Caribbean sponge Stylissa caribica has led to the isolation of the first brominated pyrrole-imidazole alkaloid containing an oxidized pyrrole moiety. The isolation and structure elucidation of oxocyclostylidol (1) are discussed in detail.

Asymmetric synthesis of double bond isomers (+)-2 (delta(15',16')) and (+)-3 (delta(14',15')) of the structure (1) (delta(16',17')) proposed for pyrinodemin A, a cytotoxic bis-pyridine alkaloid with a unique cis-cyclopent[c]isoxazolidine moiety from a marine sponge, has been accomplished. Pyrinodemin A was indicated to be a 1:1 racemic mixture of 2 from comparison of C(18 )and chiral HPLC analy...

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Based on both preclinical findings and anecdotal evidence in man, the psychoactive indole alkaloid ibogaine has been suggested to have anti-addictive properties. Previous studies indicate that blockade of NMDA receptors may mediate at least some of the putative anti-addictive actions of ibogaine. The potencies of a series of ibogaine analogs to inhibit (+)-[3-3H]5-methyl-10,11-dihydro-5H-dibenz...