Steroid compounds of marine sponges. IV. New sterols with unusual side chains from the fungusHalichondria sp 1

Five new steroid alcohols have been isolated in the form of their acetates from extracts of the spongeHalichondria sp₁ by column chromatography on silica gel and they have been identified as 24-isopropyl-5-cholest-22z-en-3-ol, 24-isopropylcholesta-5, 22Z-dien-3-ol, 24,24,26,26-tetramethylcholesta-5,25(27)-dien-3-ol, 24,24,26,26-tetramethylcholesta-5,22E,25(27)trien-3-ol, and 24-isopropenyl-25-methylcholesta-5,22E-dien-3-ol. The structures were established by an analysis of spectral characteristics.Pacific Ocean Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Far Eastern Scientific Center, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Vladivostok. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 2, pp. 232–239, March–April, 1985.