“…Previous phytochemical investigations of this alga have resulted in reports of a norsesquiterpenoid, epiloliolide, an 18-norxenicane norditerpenoid, pachyaldehyde, and 40 diterpenoids with various types of carbon frameworks, including crenulide (e . g., pachylactone), hydroazulene (pachydictyol A), decalin (methoxydictydiene), xenicane (acetyldictyolal), 7,18-cycloxenicane (acetylsanadaol), 18,19-cycloxenicane (acetylcoriacenone), and prenylated germacrane (acetoxypachydiol) skeletons, as well as a unique spirosuccinimide alkaloid and three rare nitrogenous xenicane diterpenoids, 9-demethoxy-9-ethoxyjoalin and dictyolactams A and B . In our ongoing search for more bioactive metabolites from Chinese marine alga, − D. coriacea collected off the coast of Nanji Island was chemically investigated, leading to the discovery of four new nitrogen-containing crenulide diterpenoids, namely, coriaceumins A–D ( 1 – 4 ), and two rare nitrogenous xenicane diterpenoids, dictyolactams C ( 5 ) and D ( 6 ), together with a known crenulide diterpenoid, 4-hydroxycrenulide ( 7 ).…”