Synthesis of isoagathane aldehydes representing metabolites of the spongeSpongia officinalis

The synthesis has been performed of (14R)-15-acetoxyisoagath-12-en-16-al and of (14R)- and (14S)-isoagath-12-ene-15,16-dials, which are metabolites of the marine spongeSpongia officinalis, and alos of a number of substances related to them starting from (14R)- and (14S)-isoagath-12-en-15-ols.Institute of Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Moldavian SSR, Kishinev. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 1, pp. 45–51, January–February, 1985.