We report here a new-skeleton tricyclic diterpenoid, neorogioldiol (8), along with new prenylbisabolanes, rogioldiol D (6) and O 11 , 15-cyclo-14-bromo-14,15-dihydrorogiol-3,11-diol (5), and their putative biogenetic precursor, (À)-geranyllinalool (7), isolated from the red seaweed Laurencia microcladia, which has colonized a small tract of the Tuscany coast called Il Rogiolo. In a case study of the assignment of the absolute configuration for molecules composed of chiral halves that are connected by single bonds, the absolute configuration of neorogioldiol (8) was based on a) the assumption of the identity of the cyclohexane moiety with co-occurring (2S,3R,6S)-rogiolal (4) and b) NMR-derived relative configurations for the bicyclic moiety, and c) the combination of these two pieces of information by molecular-mechanics-aided conformational analysis, in agreement with NOE data.