
%0 Journal Article
%A Bowden, BF 
%A Coll, JC 
%A Engelhardt, LM 
%A Heaton, A 
%A White, AH 
%T Studies of Australian Soft Corals. XLI. Structure Determination of a New Sesquiterpene From <I>Xenia novae-britanniae</I> and an Investigation of a <I>Xenia</I> Species
%J Australian Journal of Chemistry
%D 1987/08/01
%V 40
%N 8
%P 1483-1489
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/CH9871483
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/CH9871483 
%X .A novel sesquiterpene (1 Z,2R*,4R*,7S*,11S*)-3,3,7,11-tetramethyltricyclo[6.3.0.02,4]undec-1(8)-en-4-ol (3) was isolated from the soft coral Xenia novae-britanniae. Its structure was tentatively deduced by n.m.r. spectroscopy, and the structure with relative stereochemistry was confirmed by single-crystal X-ray crystallography. Investigation of a Xenia species afforded the known metabolite waixenicin -A previously isolated from Anthelia edmondsoni . 
