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Four new neo-clerodane diterpenoids, barbatines A-D (1-4), have been isolated from the whole plant of Scutellaria barbata (Lamiaceae), along with the known scutebarbatine A (5), and their structures determined by spectral analysis, including mass spectrometry and 2D NMR spectroscopy. The absolute configurations of 2 and 5 were established from their CD spectra by using the exciton chirality rule. A bioge-

Five compounds originating from marine fungi species Aspergillus sp. and Penicillium sp. were found to be highly potent inhibitors of cancer therapy target, Hsp90, using molecular docking and FPL calculations.

A new flavonoid, macatanarin D (1), together with five known stilbenes (2-6), was isolated from fruit glandular trichomes of Macaranga tanarius. Their structures were elucidated on the basis of spectroscopic methods and through comparison with data reported in the literature. All isolated compounds were evaluated for their cytotoxic activities against KB and MCF-7 cell lines. Compounds 3, 4, and 5 showed the strongest activities against both cell lines with IC50 values in the range of 0.03–0.12 μM, and compound 2 only showed a significant cytotoxicity against KB cell line (IC50 = 0.26 μM) and a moderate cytotoxicity against MCF-7 (IC50 = 10.4 μM). Compounds 1 and 6 showed weak cytotoxic activities against KB cell line with IC50 values of 29.3 and 24.7 μM, respectively.