Fundamental and Applicative Scientific Motivations to Pass the Border between Natural Multifunctional Molecules and Their Biomimetic Artificial Derivatives

Dear Colleagues,

The purpose of this Special Issue is to enhance state-of-the-art fundamental knowledge and stimulate vanguard ideas for promising multidisciplinary applications.

The topics include, but are not limited to, heterocyclic building blocks containing nitrogen atoms, such as acridines, benzopyranes, benzotiazoles, indoles, benzimidazoles, carbazoles, and macrocycles nanomaterials, namely porphyrins and phthalocyanines, for clinical applications, nanomedicine, and nanoenergy.

These structures manifest fluorescence due to their highly extended π electron systems, thus being either suitable tools to study biological processes like cell cycle determination or acting as drugs for anticancer, antimalarial, antipsychotic, antidepressant, antidementia, anti-inflammatory, and telomerase inhibition.

On the other side, their technical applications as advanced photovoltaics, photocatalysts, and photoconductors are highly potentiated by thin-film new deposition technologies and enhanced by theoretical modeling developments.

From the synthetic challenges of non-natural analogs to structurally advanced characterization to possible successful use in medicine and technology, all of these aspects can be welcomed in this Special Issue.

Another important aspect of this Special Issue is to illustrate the advances in computational chemistry, as this technique has been proven to be an efficient tool in medicinal chemistry for the selection/establishment of hit molecules. Recent advancements in target-based systems have paved the way for enlarging the libraries of compounds and designing the most promising compounds using molecular docking methods.

Dr. Eugenia-Lenuta Fagadar-Cosma
Dr. Alina Bora
Guest Editors

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