Natural Compounds: A Lead for Drug Discovery and Development
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Medicinal Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 25614
Special Issue Editor
Interests: natural product; hydrogen sulfide; drug discovery; medicinal chemistry; drug design; molecular imaging; anti-cancer; bioorganic chemistry
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Dear Colleagues,
Compounds of natural origin are important sources of discovery of drug leads, providing superior skeleton structure and inspiration for new drug development.
In this Special Issue, we invite researchers to contribute original research or review articles on topics related to all aspects of natural lead compounds in drug discovery and development, including, but not limited to, the discovery of natural lead compounds, structural modification and activity evaluation of natural leads, mechanism study and target identification, active metabolites of natural products, etc.
Prof. Dr. Dahong Li
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- natural compound
- drug lead
- drug discovery and development
- medicinal chemistry
- lead optimization
- biological evaluation
- natural product chemistry
- pharmaceutical analysis
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