The dichloromethane extract of the brown alga Dilophus marginatus has yielded 17 new diterpenes. Nine of these metabolites were found to possess a new bicyclic diterpene skeleton which we have named secospatane, five had the recently reported spatane skeleton whilst three compounds had a new tricyclic diterpene skeleton.
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Ravi et al. (1982) studied this question.