“…The 13 C-NMR spectrum exhibited the presence of 18 carbon signals comprising a carboxy, a benzene ring, four methyls, two methylenes, three aliphatic methines, and two quaternary carbons including an oxygen-bearing quaternary carbon. The presence of a cyclol [4][5][6] unit, characterized by a dihydropyran, a cyclopentane and a cyclobutan ring, was deduced from the 1 H-1 H correlation spectroscopy (COSY) and heteronuclear multiple bond connectivity (HMBC) spectra. The HMBC correlations of H 3 -16 with C-4a, C-5, and C-6; H-8 with C-4a, C-6, C-7, and C-8a; and H-4 with C-2, C-4a, C-5, and C-8a, indicated that a methyl group, a carboxy group, and a chelated hydroxy group were located at C-5, C-6, and C-7, respectively.…”