Terpenes and Their Derivatives: From Nature to Medical Applications
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Natural Products Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2025) | Viewed by 925
Special Issue Editors
Interests: marine natural products; marine invertebrates; structure elucidation; anti-diabetic bioactivity; terpene biosynthesis
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Interests: natural products; antibacterial activity; antidiabetic activity; anticancer activity; anti-inflammatory activity; drug discovery informatics; QSAR
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Interests: antioxidants; bioactive compounds; small molecules; polyphenols; antibacterial activity; anticancer activity; medicinal chemistry; synthesis
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Terpenes are an important and abundant group of natural products. They can be extracted and isolated from many natural sources, including terrestrial plants, mangroves, marine algae, insects, marine invertebrates, bacterial, fungi, and others. They display various structural features, which can be grouped as monoterpenes, sesquiterpenes, diterpenes, sesterterpenes, triterpenes, tetraterpenes, and others. Some terpenes are dimeric, trimeric, and even tetrameric. These structures are established by extensive spectral data, and in some cases, chemical modifications and synthesis are used to assist the structure elucidation. Moreover, chemical synthesis and biosynthesis are performed to produce large quantities or novel types of terpenes. Notably, terpenes show multiple pharmaceutical effects, such as anti-diabetes, anti-inflammatory, anti-microbial, anti-tumor, and antioxidant activity, and some are clinically used, such as paclitaxel and artemisinin.
The aim of this Special Issue is to cover all the aspects of the chemistry and biology of these promising molecules, comprising their extraction and isolation, structure elucidation, chemosynthetic and biosynthetic studies, metabolomic properties, semisynthetic transformations and total synthesis, pharmaceutical effects, and mechanisms of action.
As Guest Editors of this Special Issue, we encourage researchers to help develop the field of terpenes via contributions including research articles, reviews, and other types of works.
Dr. Linfu Liang
Dr. Anwar Rayan
Dr. Barbara De Filippis
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- terpenes
- plants
- animals
- microbes
- extraction technologies
- structure elucidation
- chemical synthesis and biosynthesis
- biological investigation
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