New Reaction Development with Applications in Natural Product Synthesis
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Natural Products Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2021) | Viewed by 489
Special Issue Editor
Interests: organic chemistry; photochemistry; natural products
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Natural products are broadly defined as anything produced by life. However, in our field, a natural product is an organic molecule created by a living organism. Microorganisms, animals, and plants produce a large number of natural products, including primary and secondary metabolites. The availability of new and more sophisticated extraction methods has aided in maintaining the constant growth and discovery of new compounds isolated from those living organisms. In addition to new separation techniques, more sophisticated analyses and instrumentation have made it possible to assign the correct chemical structure to the new isolated molecules at lower concentrations and in record time. Those advances in the field give expedited access to new potential drug candidates with exceptional biological activity. Although the isolation of natural products is a source of medicinal useful compounds, it also presents limitations such as the amount of product isolated or the challenges associated with getting access to their original source. Therefore, synthetic organic chemists play a fundamental role to synthesize those natural products, in their laboratory, using cleverly designed synthetic strategies. Many times, development of new chemical transformations are required to accomplish their synthetic goals.
This Special Issue is focused on original research articles that cover the design, development, and use of new synthetic methodologies to access natural products. Researchers working on formal or total syntheses of natural products are encouraged to publish research articles herein, but work regarding the development of new methodologies for the synthesis of intermediates as well as methodology used in the synthesis of natural products derivatives are also welcome.
Original reviews encompassing the recent literature on new methodologies to access natural products, on unusual classes of natural products, natural product derivatives, newly discovered bioactivity of natural products, and related “catalytic” processes are also considered.
Prof. Dr. Alejandro Bugarin
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- New Reaction Development
- Natural Product Synthesis
- Applications
- Catalysis
- Transition Metal-Free Conditions
- Photochemistry
