Natural Product Synthesis: A Platform for Discovery
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Organic Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 October 2015) | Viewed by 13196
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years there has been a resurgence in the chemical and biological communities’ interest in complex natural products and their analogs. The discoveries, which emerge from programs invested in the synthesis and biological evaluation of such molecules, range from versatile synthetic methods to new probes for biological pathways to leads for drug discovery. This Special Issue on natural products synthesis will offer an attractive forum to present the chemical and/or biological discoveries resulting from efforts toward the synthesis of natural products. I strongly encourage authors to submit papers for this Special Issue on natural products synthesis, within the scope of Molecules. I hope that the topics covered will reflect the potential and the excitement of natural products chemistry and serve as a collection of representative articles to inspire future discoveries.
Dr. Joshua G. Pierce
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- natural products
- heterocycles
- methods development
- stereoselectivity
- probe molecules
- biological screening
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