Positive and Negative Aspects of Natural Products Research: Isolation, Structure Elucidation and Biological Activities
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Natural Products Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2026 | Viewed by 295
Editors
Interests: medicinal plants; isolation and structure elucidation of natural products; chemical transformations of natural products; molecular modeling; quantum-chemical calculations; microbial transformations; flavonoids; coumarins; furanocoumarins; terpenoids; sesquiterpenoids; diterpenoids; sesquiterpene coumarins; sesquiterpene lactones; sesquiterpene esters; alkaloids; aporphine alkaloids; colchicine alkaloids; phenylpropanoids; lignans; selective cytotoxic activity; antimicrobial activity
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Interests: medicinal plants; isolation and structure elucidation of natural compounds; xanthones; flavonoids; phenylethanoids; sucrose esters; isoprenoids; iridoids and secoiridoids; cardiac glycosides; phytosterols; ecdysteroids; triterpene and steroidal saponins; oleanane; ursane; dammarane and cycloartane-type saponins
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2. School of Optometry and Vision Science, UNSW Medicine, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
Interests: medicinal plants and their endophytes; isolation and structure elucidation of bioactive compounds; ethnopharmacology; antibiotic; anticancer; antidiabetic and TLR4 receptor inhibitors discovery; design and development; RAGE inhibitors from natural polyphenols; nanocarrier based targeted drug delivery system
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Natural products research remains the primary scientific discipline responsible for generating the majority of novel small-molecule drug discoveries. While exciting developments in information sciences, computational tools, and techniques have vastly improved natural product drug discovery studies, a close examination of recent natural product publications reveals the presence of an increasing number of incorrect structural assignments, misreported chemical structures, and false biological activity statements, which creates a significant handicap for the improvement of natural product based drug discovery studies. Clearly, such potential pitfalls necessitate a more stringent peer-review process; in addition, the development and use of novel computational techniques could help avoid them before the publication of error-prone papers. We welcome papers that describe novel discrimination techniques capable of preventing the publication of incorrect structures or misleading information; this special issue also invites the submission of natural product compound publications with important biological activities that could lead to the development of novel drug candidates.
Prof. Dr. Mahmut Miski
Prof. Dr. İhsan Çalış
Guest Editors
Prof. Dr. Kishor Mazumder
Guest Editor Assistant
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Keywords
- natural products
- isolation techniques
- structure elucidation
- spectroscopic techniques
- quantum-chemistry calculations
- molecular docking studies
- bioactivity studies
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