Studies in Natural Products Chemistry

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 the rapid developments in spectroscopic techniques and accompanying advances in high-throughput screening techniques, it has become possible to isolate and then determine the structures and biological activity of natural products rapidly, thus opening up exciting opportunities in the field of new drug development to the pharmaceutical industry.

The series also covers the synthesis or 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 natural products.

1. Total Synthesis of Diterpenoid Pyrones, Nalanthalide, Sesquicillin, Candelalides A–C and Subglutinols A, B 2. Chemical Diversity of Vibsane-type Diterpenoids, and Neurotrophic Activity and Synthesis of Neovibsanin 3. Natural and Synthetic Alkamides: Applications in Pain Therapy 4. Alkaloids as Inhibitors of Monoamine Oxidases and their Role in the Central Nervous System 5. Furanocoumarins: Biomolecules of Therapeutic Interest 6. Interactions between Natural Health Products and Antiretroviral Drugs 7. Lichens - Chemistry and Biological Activities 8. Chemistry and Bioactivities of Royal Jelly 9. Synthetic Cannabinoids: Synthetic Cannabinoids: Synthesis and Biological Activities 10. New Strategies for Identifying Natural Products of Ecological Significance from Corals: Non-Destructive Raman Spectroscopy Analysis 11. Insulin Resistance as a Target of Some Plant-Derived Phytocompounds 12. Saponins Produced By Gypsophila Species Enhance the Toxicity of Type-I Ribosome-Inactivating Proteins 13. Biologically Active Compounds from the Genus Uncaria (Rubiaceae) 14. Asymmetric Phase – Transfer Catalysis as a Powerful Tool in the Synthesis of Biologically Active Chiral Complex Natural Products 15. Challenges of Biopesticides under the European Regulation (EC) no. 1107/2009: An overview of New Trends in Residue Analysis