CHEMICAL & PHARMACEUTICAL BULLETIN, cilt.43, sa.9, ss.1454-1457, 1995 (SCI-Expanded)
Two new labdane diterpenoids, marrubinones A (1) and B (2), were isolated from aerial parts of Marrubium astracanicum collected in Turkey. Compounds 1 and 2 were mostly characterized by two-dimensional NMR. For determination of the absolute configuration, the modified Mosher's method was applied to the 12-hydroxy forms of 1 and 2. Compounds 1 and 2 are pentacyclic diterpenoids, which differ from each other only in the stereochemistry at C-13, and they were identified as 9 alpha,13S:15,16-diepoxy-12-oxo-14-labden-19,6 beta-olide and 9 alpha,13R:15,16-diepoxy-12-oxo-14-labden-19,6 beta-olide, respectively.