Natural Product Chemistry in China
This special issue belongs to the section "Natural Products Chemistry".
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Nature is an underexplored source of unique and desirable structural scaffolds for novel drug discovery. Natural products and natural product structures continue to play a highly significant role in the drug discovery and development process. Nature-derived molecules afford varied scaffolds for bioassay and structure modification. Bio-guided isolation, semi-synthesis, and total synthesis of natural bioactive compounds has gained increased attention in the cross field of organic chemistry and natural products. Therefore, this Special Issue aims to illustrate the most recent and pertinent developments on isolation, modification, and bioactivities of natural compounds from medicinal plants, traditional Chinese medicine, and marine sources. Special attention will be paid to effective solutions which optimize natural product scaffolds based on structure−activity relationships (SARs) and novel phenotypic bioassays. Identification of active compounds with similar pharmacological effects or targets by analytical approaches coupled with advanced bioassays will also be highlighted.
Communications, full papers, and reviews on the abovementioned topics are particularly welcome.
Prof. Dr. Yi Wang
Prof. Dr. Xingxian Zhang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Bioactive compounds isolated from traditional Chinese medicine
- Structure elucidation of bioactive compounds
- Bioinspired drug design
- Total synthesis of natural products
- Structural optimization of natural products
- C-H activation in the modification of bioactive compounds
- Structure-activity relationship of natural compounds
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Published Papers
Molecules - ISSN 1420-3049