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Studies in Natural Products Chemistry, Volume 54, covers the synthesis, testing and recording of the medicinal properties of natural products, providing cutting edge accounts of the fascinating developments in the isolation, structure elucidation, synthesis, biosynthesis and pharmacology of a diverse array of bioactive natural products.
Natural products in the plant and animal kingdom offer a huge diversity of chemical structures that are the result of biosynthetic processes that have been modulated over the millennia through genetic effects. With the rapid developments in spectroscopic techniques and accompanying advances in high-throughput screening techniques, it has become possible to isolate and then determine the structures and biological activity of natural products rapidly, thus opening up exciting opportunities in the field of new drug development to the pharmaceutical industry.
List of contents
1. A Conserved Family of DNA-Binding Peptides as New Potential Natural Antitumor Agents
2. Recent Advances in the Chemistry of Natural and Semisynthetic Topoisomerase I/II Inhibitors
3. Hopanoids in Cyanobacteria Biomass and Related Samples
4. Antibacterial Potential of Diterpenoids
5. Chemistry and Bioactivity of ent-Kaurene Diterpenoids
6. Bioactive Compounds from Microalgae: Current Development and Prospects
7. Tabernaemontana Species: Promising Sources of New Useful Drugs
8. Plant-derived Anti-Diabetic Compounds Obtained from African Medicinal Plants: A Short Review
9. Homoisoflavonoids: Occurrence, Biosynthesis and Biological Activity
10. Anticancer Curcumin: Natural Analogues and Structure-Activity Relationship
About the author
Atta-ur-Rahman, Professor Emeritus, International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences (H. E. J. Research Institute of Chemistry and Dr. Panjwani Center for Molecular Medicine and Drug Research), University of Karachi, Pakistan, was the Pakistan Federal Minister for Science and Technology (2000-2002), Federal Minister of Education (2002), and Chairman of the Higher Education Commission with the status of a Federal Minister from 2002-2008. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of London (FRS) and an UNESCO Science Laureate. He is a leading scientist with more than 1283 publications in several fields of organic chemistry.
