Organic Compounds with Biological Activity (2nd Edition)
A special issue of Compounds (ISSN 2673-6918).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2026 | Viewed by 98
Special Issue Editors
Interests: ADMETox; pharmacology; anticancer research; multidrug resistance; efflux pumps; cytotoxicity; apoptosis; antibacterial assays; pharmaceutical biotechnology; drug discovery & development; selenocompounds; small molecules; probiotics
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Interests: selenium; anticancer research; antibacterial activity; cancer multidrug resistance; bacterial multidrug resistance; efflux pumps; medicinal chemistry; organic synthesis; selenium chemistry; antifungal activity; antibiotics; biofilms; selenium nanoparticles
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Interests: polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAH); trace amines; amino acids; sugars; matrix-isolation; Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR); quantum cascade laser-infrared-vibrational circular dichroism spectroscopy (QCL-IR-VCD); resonance-enhanced multiphoton ionization spectroscopy (REMPI); ion-dip spectroscopy; Fourier-transform microwave spectroscopy (FTMW); chirp-pulsed Fourier-transform microwave spectroscopy CP-FTMW; instrument design; analysis algorithms
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Recently (2023–2025), we launched a successful first edition of this Special Issue, and here we launch a second edition, wishing to further develop on its success.
We live in a society that needs new developments to advance and to solve the problems of the daily life. In this context, chemistry can help through the identification of novel compounds that show biological activities and can be used to treat human and animal diseases, to improve the quality and properties of the food and beverages, to disinfect surfaces and to increase the production in agriculture and livestock.
These novel compounds can be chemically synthesized or isolated and purified from natural sources; and can have novel promising applications against the treatment of diseases, the management of plagues in agriculture and veterinary, or the disinfection of tools, spaces or surfaces, among other uses. In this Special Issue, we welcome works that report initial the synthesis, isolation, preparation, characterization and biological activities of chemical compounds that can serve to future applications in biology, medicine, pharmacy, medicinal chemistry, agriculture, veterinary and public health.
Dr. Małgorzata Anna Marć
Dr. Enrique Domínguez-Álvarez
Guest Editors
Dr. Alcides Pinto Simao
Guest Editor Assistant
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Keywords
- biological activity
- medicinal chemistry
- chemical compounds
- active compounds
- organic chemistry
- synthesis
- biological applications
- compounds in veterinary
- compounds in agriculture
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