Red seaweed Asparagopsis taxiformis

Constit. of the red seaweed Asparagopsis taxiformis. Burreson, B.J. et al, J. Agric. Food Chem., 1976, 24, 856 isol)... 

Fenical, W. (1974) Polyhaloketones from the red seaweed Asparagopsis taxiformis. Tetrahedron Lett., 15, 4463-4466. 

Fenical W (1974) Polyhaloketones from the red seaweed. Tetrahedron Lett 51/52 4463-4466 Moore RE, Woolard FX, Roller P (1977) Halogenated acetamides, acetic acids, ataylic acids, but-3-en-2-ols and isopropanols from the red aigA Asparagopsis taxiformis. Presented at the regional meeting of the American Chemical Society, San Francisco, Calif, (in died ref McConnell and Feudal 1979)... 

Asparagopsis taxiformis is an edible red seaweed that grows on the edges of reefs in areas of constant water motion. Almost 100 different organic halides have been isolated from this source. 

Constit. of the seaweed Asparagopsis armata and red alga +. taxiformis. Originally assigned the 1,1,3,4-tetrabromo struct., revised in 1976. 

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