Description and references
Family of anti-inflammatory diterpene glycosides
originally isolated from the marine gorgonian coral, Pseudopterogorgia
elisabethae. Isoln of A-D: S.
A. Look et al., Proc. Natl. Acad.
Sci. USA 83, 6238 (1986) DOI PubMed; idem et al., J. Org. Chem. 51, 5140 (1986) DOI; of E-L: V.
Roussis et al., ibid. 55, 4916 (1990) DOI. Total synthesis of A: C. A. Broka et al., ibid. 53, 1584 (1988) DOI; of A and E: E. J. Corey, P. Carpino, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 111, 5472 (1989) DOI. Pharmacological characterization of A and
E: A. M. S. Mayer et al., Life Sci. 62, 401 (1998) DOI. Biosynthesis: R. G. Kerr et al., J. Ind. Microbiol.
Biotechnol. 33, 532 (2006) DOI PubMed. Review: T. J. Heckrodt, J. Mulzer, Top. Curr. Chem. 244, 1-41 (2005) DOI.
Derivative
Pseudopterosin A.
Nomenclature
CAS number: 104855-20-1
(3
S,7
R,9
S,9a
R)-2,3,7,8,9,9a-Hexahydro-5-hydroxy-3,6,9-trimethyl-7-(2-methyl-1-propenyl)-1
H-phenalen-4-yl-β-
d-xylopyranoside.
C
25H
36O
6; mol wt 432.55.
C 69.42%, H 8.39%, O 22.19%.
Properties
Amorphous solid. [α]D20 85° (c = 0.69
in chloroform). uv max (methanol): 230, 278, 283 nm (ε
11200, 2060, 2200).Derivative
Pseudopterosin B.
Nomenclature
CAS number: 104855-21-2
(3
S,7
R,9
S,9a
R)-2,3,7,8,9,9a-Hexahydro-5-hydroxy-3,6,9-trimethyl-7-(2-methyl-1-propenyl)-1
H-phenalen-4-yl-β-
d-xylopyranoside 2-acetate.
C
27H
38O
7; mol wt 474.59.
C 68.33%, H 8.07%, O 23.60%.
Properties
Oil. [α]D20 55.2° (c = 2.1 in chloroform). uv max (methanol): 230-235, 274, 285 nm (ε 6000, 1400,
1600).Derivative
Pseudopterosin C.
Nomenclature
CAS number: 104881-78-9
(3
S,7
R,9
S,9a
R)-2,3,7,8,9,9a-Hexahydro-5-hydroxy-3,6,9-trimethyl-7-(2-methyl-1-propen-1-yl)-1
H-phenalen-4-yl-β-
d-xylopyranoside 3-acetate.
C
27H
38O
7; mol wt 474.59.
C 68.33%, H 8.07%, O 23.60%.
Properties
Crystals from ethanol + ethyl acetate, mp 113.5-115°. [α]D20 77° (c = 1.09 in chloroform). uv max (methanol):
229, 275, 282 nm (ε 9600, 1500, 1700).Derivative
Pseudopterosin E.
Nomenclature
CAS number: 121011-80-1
(1
S,3
R,7
S,9a
R)-2,3,7,8,9,9a-Hexahydro-6-hydroxy-1,4,7-trimethyl-3-(2-methyl-1-propenyl)-1
H-phenalen-5-yl 6-deoxy-α-
l-galactopyranoside.
C
26H
38O
6; mol wt 446.58.
C 69.93%, H 8.58%, O 21.50%.
Properties
Amorphous white solid. [α]D 255.0° (c = 0.4 in methanol). uv max (methanol): 226, 275, 285 (ε 20800, 2770, 3350).Use
In cosmetics as anti-irritant and anti-inflammatory
ingredient.