Studies in Natural Products Chemistry

Studies in Natural Products Chemistry, Volume 66 covers the synthesis, 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 determine the structures and biological activity of natural products rapidly, thus opening up exciting opportunities in new drug development for the pharmaceutical industry.

1. Development and Application of Mukaiyama Oxidative Cyclization for the Synthesis of Substituted Tetrahydrofuran Cores MEIRE Y. KAWAMURA, ISAC G. ROSSET, SAJJAD ALI and MARCO ANTONIO B. FERREIRA 2. Phosphopolyprenols, Their Glycosyl Esters and Analogs: Strategy of Chemical Synthesis, Applications and Perspectives VYACHESLAV V. KOZLOV and LEONID L. DANILOV 3. Therapeutically Relevant Natural Products as AMPK Activators in the Treatment of Diabetes Juan MANUEL GERMÁN-ACACIO, DAVID EDUARDO MEZA-SÁNCHEZ and DAVID MORALES-MORALES 4. Natural Drug Cancer Treatments, Strategies from Herbal Medicine to Chemical or Biological Drugs DA-YONG LU, TING-REN LU, NAGENDRA SASTRY YARLA, YI LU, JIN-YU CHE, JIAN DING, BIN XU, HONG ZHU, YING SHEN and HONG-YING WU 5. Diabetes Associated Complications and Some Indian Traditional Plants Used For Its Management WASHIM KHAN, SULTAN ZAHIRUDDIN and SAYEED AHMAD 6. Natural Products as Anti-Alzheimer’s Drugs BABITA VEER, GEETANJALI and RAM SINGH 7. Natural Bee Products and Their Apitherapeutic Applications SEVGI KOLAYLI and MERVE KESKIN 8. Recent Improvements in the Extraction, Cleanup and Quantification of Bioactive Flavonoids A. VIJAYA BHASKAR REDDY, M. MONIRUZZAMAN, V. MADHAVI and JAFARIAH JAAFAR 9. Natural Products from Plants with Prospective Anti-Hiv Activity and Relevant Mechanisms of Action ANIRBAN MANDAL, DEW BISWAS and BANASRI HAZRA 10. Advances in Bioactive Compounds from Crocus Sativus (Saffron): Structure, Bioactivity and Biotechnology DEVENDRA KUMAR PANDEY, SAMAPIKA NANDY, ANURADHA MUKHERJEE and ABHIJIT DEY 11. Functional Laxative Foods: Concepts, Trends and Health benefits AYDIN TABRIZI, ROGAYE DARGAHI, SEPIDEH TEHRANI GHADIM, MINA JAVADI, HANIYEH RASOULI PIROUZIAN, ASLAN AZIZI and AZIZ HOMAYOUNI RAD 12. Liquid Chromatography-High Resolution Mass Spectrometry for the Analysis of Bioactive Natural Products CEMIL AYDOGAN 13. Brief Review on Applications of Continuous-wave Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectroscopy in Natural Product Free Radical Research SAMEH ABOUZID and HAYAM AHMED