Special Issue "Synthesis of Flavonoids or Other Nature-Inspired Small Molecules"
A special issue of Molbank (ISSN 1422-8599). This special issue belongs to the section "Natural Products".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 February 2022) | Viewed by 27009
Special Issue Editor
Interests: medicinal chemistry; organic synthesis; analytical chemistry; mass spectrometry; NMR; natural products; molecular modeling
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Every organic chemist should agree that, as stated by Nobel Laureate Frances H. Arnold, “by far, nature is the best chemist of all time”. Natural compounds are characterized by a unique variety of chemical structures, functional groups, and stereochemical properties. Moreover, from the medicinal chemistry point of view, several naturally occurring small molecules are endowed with valuable biological activities and have inspired the design and development of drugs.
Flavonoids represent an outstanding example among natural compounds. These molecules are polyphenols produced by plants and fungi, constituted by two phenyls and a heterocyclic ring, disposed differently according to the sub-category. Flavonoids and semi-synthetic derivatives have been extensively studied in light of their wide bioactivity spectrum: antioxidant, antiproliferative, antibacterial and anti-inflammatory. In addition, several other classes of natural or nature-inspired molecules, such as alkaloids and terpenoids, are particularly attractive from a chemical or biological perspective.
This Special Issue aims at collating original contributions describing the synthesis of natural compounds and semi-synthetic derivatives of natural molecules. Articles should contain original and efficient synthetic approaches or significant process innovations in the preparation of natural and semi-synthetic compounds, with a particular focus on biologically relevant molecules. Moreover, research articles reporting significant results concerning extraction procedures, structural elucidation and structural characterization of natural compounds and derivatives involving the use of advanced analytical techniques (chromatography, 1D and 2D NMR, mass spectrometry, IR and UV spectroscopy) are particularly welcome.
Dr. Giovanni Ribaudo
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- flavonoids
- alkaloids
- natural compounds
- semi-synthetic compounds
- heterocycles
- organic chemistry
- stereochemistry
- structural elucidation
- analytical chemistry