Natural Product Chemistry in China-2nd Edition
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Natural Products Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2023) | Viewed by 1387
Special Issue Editors
Interests: high throughput screening of bioactive compounds from natural products
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Interests: synthesis and structural modification of natural products for the discovery of lead compound; small-molecule probe synthesis employing PROTACs technology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Nature is an underexplored source of unique and desirable structural scaffolds for novel drug discovery. Natural products and natural product structures continue to play a highly significant role in the drug discovery and development process. Nature-derived molecules afford varied scaffolds for bioassay and structure modification. The bio-guided isolation, semi-synthesis, and total synthesis of natural bioactive compounds has gained increased research attention in the cross field of
organic chemistry and natural products. Therefore, this Special Issue aims to illustrate the most recent and important developments in the isolation, modification, and bioactivities of natural compounds from medicinal plants, traditional Chinese medicine, and marine sources. Special attention will be paid to effective solutions that optimize natural product scaffolds based on structure−activity relationships (SARs) and novel phenotypic bioassays. The identification of active compounds with similar pharmacological effects or targets by analytical approaches coupled with advanced bioassays will also be highlighted.
Communications, full papers, and reviews on the abovementioned topics are particularly welcome.
Prof. Dr. Yi Wang
Prof. Dr. Xingxian Zhang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- bioactive compounds isolated from traditional Chinese medicine
- structure elucidation of bioactive compounds
- bioinspired drug design
- total synthesis of natural products
- structural optimization of natural products
- C-H activation in the modification of bioactive compounds
- structure–activity relationship of natural compounds
