“…8,9 We recently reported the isolation of psammaplysins K−W, together with 19-hydroxyplammaplysins E, P, Q, S, T, U, and W, from an extract of the Balinese sponge Aplysinella strongylata (order Verongida, family Aplysinellidae), with five of these new psammaplysins showing variation in the structural motif attached to C-16 of the aromatic ring, while the remaining compounds contained fatty acid side chains; 19-hydroxypsammaplysin E showed potent antimalarial activity. 11 The relative configuration of psammaplysin A (1) was first determined as (6S*,7S*) in 1985 by single-crystal X-ray crystallographic analysis of its diacetyl derivative (2). 3 Subsequent reports on the relative configuration of psammaplysins C−H were made by comparing their specific rotation values with those of psammaplysin A, 4,8,9,11,12 by chemical shift comparisons, [5][6][7]11 or by ROESY/NOESY correlation data.…”