Natural Products Chemistry: Advances in Synthetic, Analytical and Bioactivity Studies
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Organic Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2023) | Viewed by 28913
Special Issue Editor
Interests: medicinal chemistry; organic synthesis; analytical chemistry; mass spectrometry; NMR; natural products; molecular modeling
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Dear Colleagues,
The world of chemistry of natural products is endowed with unpaired richness, and this can be noted from several perspectives. Plants, fungi, and marine organisms represent sources of small molecules characterized by a unique complexity due to their variety of scaffolds, functional groups, and stereochemistry. At the same time, extraction, de novo synthesis, derivatization, and semi-synthetic approaches represent challenging tasks for the organic chemist. In parallel, the field of analytical profiling of the content of organic compounds and microelements in natural matrices pushes experimental techniques to the edge of their potential, due to the complexity of sample preparation and data elaboration. Additionally, flavonoids, alkaloids, terpenes, and their semisynthetic derivatives constantly attract the interest of the medicinal chemist in light of their biological roles, which include, among the others, antioxidant, antiproliferative, antibacterial, and anti-inflammatory activities.
This Special Issue aims to collect original contributions describing the extraction, structural elucidation, and synthesis of natural, semisynthetic derivatives and nature-inspired molecules. Moreover, articles reporting the analysis of the content of natural compounds in complex matrices and their bioactivity, as well as review articles focusing on the chemistry of natural products, will be considered. Research articles describing significant results in terms of innovative synthetic and extractive techniques and advanced analysis (chromatography, 1D and 2D NMR, mass spectrometry, IR and UV spectroscopy) are particularly welcome.
Dr. Giovanni Ribaudo
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- natural compounds
- semisynthetic compounds
- organic synthesis
- analytical chemistry
- flavonoids
- alkaloids
- drug design
- stereochemistry