Highly hydroxylated marine steroids from the starfish Archaster typicus
Abstract
Seven new marine polyhydroxysteroids, (1)–(7), of which four have a 27-norcholestane skeleton, have been isolated by droplet counter-current chromatography and reversed-phase h.p.l.c. from the starfish Archaster typicus. Characterization was accomplished by FAB m.s., and 1H and 13C n.m.r. spectroscopy including two-dimensional proton–carbon chemical-shift correlation (direct and long range) n.m.r. spectroscopy.