Modern Natural Drug Discovery
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Natural Products Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 3146
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Interests: organic synthesis; medicinal chemistry; drug synthesis; biological evaluation; anticancer agents
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Dear Colleagues,
Due to their diverse range of multidimensional chemical structures, natural products (NPs) and their derivatives have played and will continue to play a key role in drug discovery and structural diversity. Approximately 35 percent of chemical medicines originate directly or indirectly from natural products. NPs offer special features in comparison with conventional synthetic molecules, lending both advantages and challenges in the drug discovery process. NPs are a promising source for the discovery of scaffolds with high structural diversity and various bioactivities that can be directly developed or used as lead compounds for optimization into modern drugs. We believe that contemporary scientific and technological advances will provide a strong basis for NP-based drug discovery, further contributing to enhancing human health.
Dr. Wen-Wei Qiu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- natural products
- drug discovery
- bioactive
- lead compound
- structure–activity relationship optimization
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