Studies in Natural Products Chemistry

This volume presents frontier reviews of recent developments in bioactive natural products in cutting-edge areas by eminent experts in their respective fields. It is an essential addition to this important series on Natural Products Chemistry, generally acknowledged to be the leading series on this topic.

• The first seven reviews cover recent developments in the field of bioactive marine natural products.
• Additional coverage includes Novel Domino reactions; medicinal plants and phytochemicals; recent developments in bioactive natural peptides; the chemistry and pharmacology of natural cyclic lipopeptides; and the biological activities of Salvia .
• The text includes a comprehensive review of biologically active compounds of semi-metals such as boron, silicon, arsenic, selenium and tellurium.

R. DANIEL LITTLE AND GISELE A. NISHIGUCHI: Synthetic efforts toward, and biological activity of, thyrsiferol and
structurally-related analogues

KATSUHIRO UEDA AND DAISUKE UEMURA: Bioactive marine metabolites from okinawan waters

MARIA JOSE ABAD MARTINEZ, LUIS MIGUEL BEDOYA DEL OLMO AND PAULINA BERMEJO BENITO: Natural marine antiviral products

VLADIMIR I. KALININ, DMITRY L. AMININ, SERGEY A. AVILOV, ALEXANDRA S. SILCHENKO AND VALENTIN A. STONIK: Triterpene glycosides from sea cucumbers (holothurioidea, echinodermata)

XIAOHONG LIU, FANG XU, CHANGLUN SHAO, ZHIGANG SHE, YONGCHENG LIN AND WING LAI CHAN: Bioactive metabolites from marine microorganisms

MARTA S. MAIER: Biological activities of sulfated glycosides from echinoderms

TOM TURK, KRISTINA SEPÈIC, INES MANCINI AND
GRAZIANO GUELLA: 3-Aklypyridinium and 3-alkylpyridine compounds from marine sponges, their synthesis, biological activities, and potential use

SHANTA S. BHAR AND M.M.V. RAMANA: Novel domino reactions for synthesis of bioactive diterpenoids and alkaloids

GAIL B. MAHADY, YUE HUANG, BRIAN J. DOYLE AND
TRACIE LOCKLEAR: Natural products as antibacterial agents

MARIA JOSE ABAD MARTINEZ, RUBÉN MARTÍN LAZARO,
LUIS MIGUEL BEDOYA DEL OLMO AND PAULINA BERMEJO BENITO: Anti-infectious activity in the anthemideae tribe

RAKESH MAURYA, GEETU SINGH AND PREM P. YADAV: Antiosteoporotic agents from natural sources

ELIANA RODRIGUES, RICARDO TABACH, JOSÉ CARLOS F. GALDURÓZ AND GIUSEPPINA NEGRI: Plants with possible anxiolytic and/or hypnotic effects indicated by three Brazilian cultures – Indians, afro-Brazilians, and river-dwellers

SIRLEI DAFFRE, PHILIPPE BULET, ALBERTO SPISNI,
LAURENCE EHRET-SABATIER, ELAINE G. RODRIGUES AND
LUIZ R. TRAVASSOS: Bioactive natural peptides

HIDEKI HASHIZUME AND YOSHIO NISHIMURA: Cyclic lipopeptide antibiotics

AHMED KABOUCHE AND ZAHIA KABOUCHE: Bioactive diterpenoids of Salvia species

T. ØEZANKA AND K. SIGLER: Biologically active compounds of semi-metals