Disruption diterpene

In 1992, Paul and Van Alstyne reported on the processes that occur after tissue disruption in different species of the calcified green seaweed Halimeda [56]. After wounding, these algae transform their major secondary metabolite, the his-enoylacetate diterpene halimedatetraacetate (48), into halimedatrial (50) and epihalimedatrial (51). The structural relationship between the educt and the reaction products suggests that the transformation occurs by a combination of solvolysis and hydrolysis reactions as indicated in Scheme 14 [108]. 

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