Diterpenoid Hydroperoxides from the Far-Eastern Brown Alga Dictyota dichotoma

Abstract

Two new compounds, dictyohydroperoxide 1 and hydroperoxyacetoxycrenulide 2, (Scheme 1) containing hydroperoxyl groups rarely found in algal terpenoids were isolated from the Russian population of brown alga Dictyota dichotoma. The known compounds acetoxycrenulide 4 and squalene were also found in this algal species for the first time. Some of the isolated compounds showed moderate cytoxicity against human cancer cell lines.