Syntheses and Crystal Structures of 12-Oxime Dehydroabietic Acid Derivatives

Three novel dehydroabietate oxime derivatives were synthesized from dehydroabietic acid and their crystal structures were determined by X-ray crystallographic techniques. All of these 12-oxime dehydroabietic acid derivatives crystallize in orthorhombic system, space group P212121. In the structures, rings A and B exhibit chair and half-chair configurations, respectively and form trans ring junction with two methyl groups(C(19) and C(20)) in the axis positions. The oxime groups have E conformations. Comparison of conformations reveals subtle differences principally in ring B due to the modification in C(12). The E-acetaldehyde oxime derivative 2c showed distinct BKα gate-opening activity with an ionic current increase of 164% at 30 μM versus the control current.