Special Issue "Natural Bioactives as Leading Molecules for Drug Development"

Dear Colleagues,

Natural products have been used since ancient times, and are now used in traditional medicine and modern-day therapies as drugs or drug templates. Nature is a rich source of chemical diversity, which leads to broad diversity in the mechanisms of biological action and drug-like properties of natural products. Moreover, nature provides countless active ingredients, with new potentially bioactive molecules from natural resources reported every day. Identifying bioactive compounds is the initial step in drug discovery, and there has been increasing interest in the derivatization of natural metabolites. Computer-aided design and in silico approaches are also considered promising tools in the discovery of new derivatives from natural products.

This Special Issue aims to collect original and/or review papers that contribute to natural product chemistry research. We invite researchers to contribute papers on the chemistry of naturally occurring compounds, with a focus on the isolation, structure elucidation, and chemical synthesis of novel compounds, and in silico studies. We also welcome evaluations of the biological activities of novel compounds, their structure–activity relationship, and their molecular mechanisms of action, and are particularly interested in new works in related fields.

Dr. Patrícia Rijo
Guest Editor

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• natural product chemistry
• natural product biological activity
• extraction, isolation, and structural characterization
• natural product synthesis and semi-synthesis
• natural product molecular docking