“…Mosher's method (Cao et al, 2014) was tried to determine the absolute configuration of C-7 but failed. Fortunately, a literature survey revealed that the coisolated cyclonerane-type compounds (4-9) and many other similar natural compounds have been reported the same absolute configurations as 2S,3R,6R,7R (Hanson et al, 1975;Kasitu et al, 1992;Li et al, 2007;Wu et al, 2012;Xie et al, 2013;Zhang et al, 2017;Fang et al, 2018;Song et al, 2018). Therefore, based on the biogenetic considerations, compound 3 was proposed to have the same absolute configuration (2S,3R,6R,7R) as the co-isolated compound 9, which was also supported by their similar OR between 3 ([α] 22 D -29.9 (c 1.00, CHCl 3 )) and 9 ([α] 22 D -26.6 (c 1.00, CHCl 3 ); lit.…”