Current Trends towards Natural Products Synthesis

Dear Colleagues,

The field of total synthesis of natural products has evolved intensely over the past 30 years owing to the efforts of strategy-based organic chemists, along with remarkable improvements in our bond-forming capabilities. In addition to the search for novel strategies, efforts are also addressed at translating laboratory-level academic success in total synthesis to the large-scale assembly of biologically important molecules, or building large collections of natural product families (or their analogues) for use as biological probes or in medicinal chemistry or to gather information on the structure–activity relationship (SAR) for a particular natural product in order to synthetize simplified derivatives. You are invited to submit research/reviews on topics from the natural product synthesis field.

Prof. Dr. Marina DellaGreca
Prof. Dr. Maria Rosaria Iesce
Guest Editors

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