“…Xenicanes are a class of diterpenes and norditerpenes (Faulkner, 1993) which have been isolated not only from many brown algae belonging to the family Dictyotaceae (Finer et al, 1979;Enoki et al, 1982;Shono and Kashimura, 1983;Pathirana and Andersen, 1984;Ishitsuka et al, 1982Ishitsuka et al, , 1988Norte et al, 1990;König et al, 1991aKönig et al, , 1991bBouaïcha et al, 1993aBouaïcha et al, , 1993bPatil et al, 1993;Siamopoulou et al, 2004) but also from soft corals and gorgonians (Faulkner, 2000). Some of them showed interesting biological activities including cytotoxicity (Ishitsuka et al, 1988;Bouaïcha et al, 1993aBouaïcha et al, , 1993bRho et al, 2001) and antimicrobial (Iwagawa et al, 1996).…”