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Studies in Natural Products Chemistry, Volume 78 covers the synthesis or 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 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. Structure Defines Bioactivity of Avocado-derived Acetogenins
2. Phytochemicals in Synucleinopathies: Targeting Mitochondrial Dysfunction and -Synuclein Toxicity
3. Extraction, isolation, and biological activity of natural cyclic dipeptides
4. Sesquiterpenoid Oligomers from Chloranthaceae Plants: Structural Diversity, Biological Activities and Total Syntheses
5. Synthesis of Naturally Occurring Seven-membered Nitrogen Heterocycles and Related Bioactive Compounds
6. American mistletoes as a promising source of bioactive compounds
7. The Chemistry and Biology of the Plant Poisons and Their Forensic Significance
8. Surfacing Hybrid Medicines of Bioactive Molecules: A Solid States Formulation Approach
9. Immobilization of Essential Oils in Biopolymeric Matrices: Recent Approaches for Controlled Carrier-delivery Systems
10. Secondary metabolites in wound healing: a review of their mechanisms of action
11. Fungal Coumarins: Biotechnological and Pharmaceutical Aspects
12. Innovative and ecofriendly methods and pretreatments for essential oil extraction: An update
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.
