Strategies toward Bioactive Natural Product Like-Compounds

Dear Colleagues,

Natural products remain an important source of therapeutic drug leads and continue to inspire new synthetic approaches. In this sense, it is encouraging to see that there is renewed interest in using natural product building blocks or privileged structures to access novel drug-like chemical spaces. Creative chemistry performed on privileged structures together target biological strategies, which has the potential to lead to novel chemical entities with pharmacological potential.

This Special Issue aims to collect original papers and/or review papers focused on strategies that provide natural product-like and natural product-inspired biologically relevant compound collections.

Prof. Ana Estévez-Braun
Dr. Ángel Amesty
Guest Editor

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