Natural Products Chemistry: Advances in Synthetic, Analytical and Bioactivity Studies, Volume II
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Organic Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2024 | Viewed by 292
Special Issue Editor
Interests: medicinal chemistry; organic synthesis; analytical chemistry; mass spectrometry; NMR; natural products; molecular modeling
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Modern chemical sciences, and medicinal chemistry in particular, are strongly related to the world of natural products. Compounds of a natural origin are chemically diverse and characterized by a variety of scaffolds and functional groups, and chirality represents an additional feature. The study of natural compounds is intriguing in light of their several potential applications, but can also be challenging from the point of view of their extraction and analytical characterization. At the same time, organic chemists put their best effort into the derivatization and optimization of natural compounds to produce optimized analogues, thus unleashing the potential of their semisynthetic derivatives. Flavonoids, alkaloids and terpenes are only some of the chemical classes that attract the interest of medicinal chemists for the identification and development of novel therapeutic options. Moreover, drug discovery tools allow us to rationalize and to translate into modern medicinal chemistry the traditional uses of Nature-inspired molecules.
This Special Issue aims to collect original contributions describing the extraction, structural elucidation, synthesis and biological evaluation of natural, semisynthetic derivatives and Nature-inspired molecules. Moreover, articles that analyze the content of natural compounds in complex matrices and their bioactivity, as well as review articles focusing on the chemistry of natural products, will be considered. Research articles describing significant results in terms of innovative synthetic and extractive techniques and advanced analysis (chromatography, 1D and 2D NMR, mass spectrometry, and IR and UV spectroscopy), as well as drug discovery-oriented contributions, are particularly welcome.
Dr. Giovanni Ribaudo
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- natural compounds
- semisynthetic compounds
- organic synthesis
- analytical chemistry
- flavonoids
- alkaloids
- drug design
- stereochemistry
