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A known kaurenoic acid (1), together with a new kaurane derivative named 3α-isobutyryloxykaurenoic acid (2), was isolated from the roots of Lasianthaea aurea, a plant endemic to Mexico. The compounds were characterized using their physical and spectroscopic data. In order to verify the structure and absolute configuration of 2, the derived methyl ester 3, obtained after diazomethane treatment, was subjected to single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis, whose Flack and Hooft parameter calculations evidenced that the new natural product is an ent-kaurane derivative. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sideroxol ( 1), a kaurane diterpene which has the ent-7α,18-dihydroxy-15β,16β-epoxykaurane structure (MW = 320.47, C20H32O3) was obtained from the acetone extract of Sideritis leptoclada plant as well as from some other Sideritis species. It crystallizes in the orthorhombic space group P21, 21, 21 with a = 10.967(3), b = 24.555(5), c = 6.372(4) Å, Dc = 1.240 g cm−3, Z = 4, and refines to R = 0.065 for 721 independent reflections. The skeleton consists of three fused six-membered rings and a five-membered ring with fused epoxide. The six membered rings exhibited slightly distorted chair conformation. In addition to sideroxol, two kaurane and five kaurene diterpenes were isolated from the hexane and acetone extracts of the studied plant. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]