Natural Products in Plants: Synthesis, Analysis and Bioactivity
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Phytochemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2025 | Viewed by 826
Special Issue Editors
Interests: natural product chemistry; synthetic methodologies applied to natural product synthesis; medicinal chemistry of natural products
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Interests: phytochemistry; isolation and structural elucidation of secondary metabolites; bioprospecting
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Plants and their secondary metabolites represent invaluable sources of medicaments and drugs. While in the last century, the exploration of the universe of natural products saw miraculous breakthroughs, today the identification of secondary metabolites with new and unique structures is becoming more and more difficult. The fact that new chemical scaffolds are linked to new bioactivities could represent a limiting factor in the research for new drugs. This issue would be an opportunity to show the latest approaches in the discovery, analysis, and synthesis of new natural products with interesting biological profiles.
Dr. Alberto Minassi
Dr. Federica Pollastro
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- secondary metabolites
- natural products
- synthesis of natural products
- analysis
- bioactivity
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