
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Rideout, JA 
A1  - Sutherland, MD 
T1  - Pigments of marine animals. XIV. Polyketide sulfates from the crinoid <I>Comatula pectinata</I>
JF  - Australian Journal of Chemistry
JO  - Aust. J. Chem.
Y1  - 1981
VL  - 34
IS  - 11
SP  - 2385
EP  - 2392
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UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/CH9812385 
N2  - The polyhydroxyanthraquinones known from the crinoid Comatula pectinata are shown to be present largely as (fish repellent) sulfate monoesters. The sodium salt of the 3-O-sulfate of 4-butyryl-1,3-dihydroxy-6,8-dimethoxy-9,10-anthraquinone was isolated by its chromatographic mobility on alumina in aqueous acetone or on sodium bicarbonate in aqueous ethanol. The sulfate hydrolyses readily to the free phenol and is methylated (Me2SO4/K2CO3 in refluxing acetone) to 4-butyryl-1,3,6,8-tetramethoxyanthraquinone. Methylated in the presence of tertiary alcohols however, the sulfate ester resists cleavage, yielding the 1,6,8-trimethyl ether, hydrolysable to 4-butyryl-3-hydroxy-1,6,8-trimethoxyanthraquinone. 
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