Total Synthesis and Synthetic Approaches towards Marine Bioactive Natural Products and Analogues
A special issue of Marine Drugs (ISSN 1660-3397). This special issue belongs to the section "Synthesis and Medicinal Chemistry of Marine Natural Products".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2024) | Viewed by 10836
Special Issue Editors
Interests: natural products; bioactive compounds; total synthesis; antitumor; antibiotics; cyclodepsipeptides; cyclopeptides
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Interests: total synthesis; natural products; medicinal chemistry
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Marine organisms have proven to be a rich and powerful source of bioactive natural products featuring diverse and complex molecular architectures and a broad array of biological activities. Since the importance and value of these natural products has become clear in biology and medicine, total synthesis is now essential for the development of such secondary metabolites, either as biological tools or as potential leads in medicine. The general problem that represents scarce and difficult-to-access marine natural products, as well as their structural determination, can be overcome via total synthesis. In addition, total synthesis and synthetic approaches, such as semisynthesis, allow access to analogues for structure–activity relationship (SAR) and drug discovery studies. Therefore, given the importance of this field, this Special Issue will cover total synthesis and the synthetic approaches to reflect the major role of this discipline and its implications in the development of bioactive compounds of marine origin.
Prof. Dr. Francisco Sarabia
Dr. Ivan Cheng-Sanchez
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- total synthesis
- marine natural products
- biological activity
- synthetic approaches
- semisynthesis
- analogues
- structure–activity relationships
- structural determination
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