A specimen of Dysidea sp. from Palau contained three new dolabellane diterpenes 1-3 and an unstable 14-membered macrolide, arenolide (4), which showed modest cytotoxicity. From a chemotaxonomic viewpoint, these metabolites are so unusual that we discuss their possible origin.
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