Natural Compounds: Structural Diversity, Modifications, and Biological Activities
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Bioactives and Nutraceuticals".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 July 2025 | Viewed by 949
Special Issue Editor
Interests: organic chemistry; natural products; structure modeling; organic physicochemistry; spectroscopic analysis
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Natural compounds remain an invaluable source of bioactive molecules with diverse chemical structures and therapeutic potential. This Special Issue highlights recent advances in the discovery, structural elucidation, and biological evaluation of natural products derived from various sources, including plants, fungi, and marine organisms. Particular attention is given to compounds featuring unique structural motifs and rare modifications—such as polyoxygenation, glycosylation, or halogenation—that enhance their biological activity. Contributions include studies on a wide array of compound classes, such as steroids, alkaloids, terpenes, and phenolics, with demonstrated potential in anticancer, antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, and metabolic disease therapies. By showcasing both unmodified natural products and their synthetic or semi-synthetic derivatives, this Special Issue aims to provide a comprehensive overview of current strategies for exploiting natural scaffolds in the development of innovative therapeutic agents.
This Special Issue is supervised by Prof. Dr. Tomasz Pospieszny and assisted by MSc. Grzegorz Hajdaś(Adam Mickiewicz University).
Prof. Dr. Tomasz Pospieszny
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- bile acids
- molecular research
- biological activity
- natural products
- steroids
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