Pentaketides relating to aspinonene and dihydroaspyrone from a marine-derived fungus, Aspergillus ostianus.

ABSTRACT

Three new pentaketides, aspinotriols A ( 1) and B ( 3) and aspinonediol ( 5), were isolated together with two known compounds, aspinonene ( 7) and dihydroaspyrone ( 9), from the marine fungus Aspergillus ostianus strain 01F313, which was collected in Pohnpei and cultured with bromine-modified artificial seawater. The structures of the new compounds were determined by spectroscopic analyses including 1D and 2D NMR. Although 1 and 3 are diastereomers, they show nearly superimposable (1)H and (13)C NMR spectra. The absolute configurations of compounds 1, 3, 5, and 9 were elucidated by the modified Mosher's method.