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Studies in Natural Products Chemistry, Volume 85 covers the synthesis or testing and recording of the medicinal properties of natural products, providing cutting-edge accounts on 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. Natural-Product-Inspired Bioactive Alkaloids via C-C/C-N Coupling Reactions: Synthetic Developments, Current Scenario and Future Perspectives
2. Natural Product-Based Drug Nanodelivery Systems in Cancer Therapy
3. Anticancer Activities of Coumarins and Their Structure-Activity Relationships
4. Marine Natural Products and their Anticancer Potential via Histone Deacetylases Inhibition in Breast Cancer
5. Chitosan-Based Drug and Bioactive Delivery Systems: Application of Chitosan Microcapsules to Enhance Absorption and Bioavailability of Bioactive Components
6. A Comprehensive Review on Chemical and Phenolic Composition and Biological Activities of Abies Species
7. Progress in the Study of Natural Grayanane Diterpenoids
8. Medicinal Value of Some Horticultural Crops
9. Ibervillea sonorae (S. Watson) Green a Potential Resource of Bioactive Compounds: Systematic Analysis of a Mexican Plant Used in Traditional Medicine
10. The Comprehensive Role of Probiotic-Derived Peptides in Immunomodulation
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.
