New Natural Products: Isolation, Structural Elucidation, and Bioactivities

Dear Colleagues,

Natural products have played a very important role in drug discovery, such as paclitaxel, camptothecin, and berbamine. Natural product investigations on various natural sources guide us to a better understanding of constituents, bioactivities, and structure–activity relationships. Most natural products are characterized by enormous scaffold diversity and structural complexity. Additionally, the structural elucidation of new compounds might involve the elucidation of conformation and configuration, which could be useful toward a comprehensive analysis of MS, NMR, X-ray diffraction, circular dichroism, and chemical calculations. Bioactive natural products are mostly specific metabolites of natural sources with anticancer, anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, antivirus, anti-oxidation properties, etc. They may also lead to modern discovery or the development of new drugs.

We invite researchers to contribute original and review articles presenting their work in isolation, as well as structural elucidation and pharmacological investigation of new natural constituents from plants, fungus, and other living organisms in nature. We welcome papers presenting the isolation and elucidation of new bioactive compounds, pharmacological effects and mechanisms, and the discussion of structure–activity relationships.

Prof. Dr. Qingwen Zhang
Guest Editor

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