Two new norneolignans and other components from Strophioblachia fimbricalyx

Soluble individual metal atoms and ultrasmall clusters catalyze key synthetic steps of a natural product synthesis

“…Lignans and neolignans constitute a huge family of natural products 11 with a plethora of well-known pharmaceutical properties, ranging from neuroprotective 12,13 to antiviral 14 activity. More and more structures are found each year, and only in the last decade >500 members of the (neo) lignan family have been isolated, structurally characterized and biologically determined 11,15,16 . Within the neolignan family, the dehydrobenzofuranecontaining sub-family can be considered one of the most numerous and relevant, and Fig.…”