“…In recent decades, interest in the production of secondary metabolites from mushrooms has increased due to their various biological activities [ 10 , 11 ]. Among these, Hypoxylon truncatum (family Xylariaceae), an inedible ball-shaped wood-rotting fungus, was reported to contain unique benzo[ j ]fluoranthene compounds [ 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 ]. During our search for new bioactive secondary metabolites of Korean wild mushrooms, we collected the H. truncatum mushroom (Gangneung city, Korea) and isolated three major compounds from it: hypoxylonol C ( 1 ), hypoxylonol F ( 2 ), and 4,5,4′,5′-tetrahydroxy-1:1′-binaphthyl (BNT) ( 3 ), from a crude methanol extract.…”